ComodIT releases Centos 6.3 cloud images for Amazon EC2

13/07/2012 - Laurent Eschenauer (@eschnou)

We have just released a public CentOS 6.3 cloud image for Amazon EC2. This image is a vanilla, just enough, install with cloud-init. It follows the EC2 convention, meaning that root login is disabled, but you can log-in with the configured SSH keys as ec2-user and sudo access is available.

We’ve built this image using ComodIT as described in this blog post. You can follow the same procedure to build your custom CentOS 6.3. The image is EBS backed and available in all regions, with the following AMI ID: