{"id":2898,"date":"2014-04-10T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2014-04-10T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:12:32","slug":"amazon-ec2-linux-amis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/10\/amazon-ec2-linux-amis","title":{"rendered":"Amazon EC2 Linux AMIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), you are always given choices of AMIs (by default; there are plenty of other AMIs available for your base-os): Amazon Linux AMI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Server and Ubuntu. In terms of cost, the Amazon Linux AMI is the cheapest, followed by SUSE then RHEL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I use EC2 a lot for testing, and recently had to pay a \u201cRHEL tax\u201d as I needed to run a RHEL environment. For most uses I\u2019m sure you can be satisfied by the Amazon Linux AMI. The last <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/06\/11\/can-free-red-hat-on-aws-make-it-the-de-facto-linux-for-the-cloud-too\/aws-ec2-usage-by-operating-system\/\">numbers<\/a> suggest Amazon Linux is #2 in terms of usage on EC2.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, recently Amazon Linux AMI came out with the 2014.03 release (see <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/amazon-linux-ami\/2014.03-release-notes\/\">release notes<\/a>). You can install MySQL 5.1.73 or MySQL 5.5.36 (the latter makes the most sense today) easily without additional repositories.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part of the release notes though? When the 2014.09 release comes out, it would mark 3 years since they\u2019ve gone GA with the Amazon Linux AMI. They are likely to remove MySQL 5.1 (its old and deprecated upstream). And:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>We are considering switching from MySQL to MariaDB.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This should be interesting going forward. MariaDB in the EC2 AMI would be a welcome addition naturally. I do wonder if the choice will be offered in RDS too. I will be watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.aws.amazon.com\/forum.jspa?forumID=30\">forums<\/a> closely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), you are always given choices of AMIs (by default; there are plenty of other AMIs available for your base-os): Amazon Linux AMI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Server and Ubuntu. In terms of cost, the Amazon Linux AMI is the cheapest, followed by SUSE then RHEL.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1064,23,1406],"tags":[785,1653,783,4,1052,1775,706],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mariadb-databases","category-mysql","category-oss","tag-amazon","tag-ami","tag-ec2","tag-linux","tag-mariadb","tag-mysql","tag-red-hat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-KK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}