NetBSD EC2 Images

[Jan Schaumann <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost>]

Hello,

Every year or so I wonder why we don't provide EC2
images for our releases.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/amis/ lists images
from 10 years ago, which really isn't helpful for most
users looking to try out NetBSD without much effort in
this manner.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/bsdec2_image_upload/
is largely accurate and can help anybody create an AMI
(I have my own write-up that mirrors that wiki page to
a large part at
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/creating-netbsd-ec2-amis.html),
so the basic steps are well understood.

It'd be ideal to integrate this into the build process
for the official images for evbarm and amd64.  The
hurdles are less technical, and more a question of
logistics (such as creating an AWS account for TNF and
handling the credentials, creating and managing the
AWS resources, paying the AWS bill).

I'd be interested in helping to make this happen, but
my bandwidth is limited.  If there's anybody else who
would want to work on that or who has already done
work in this direction, please let me know.

-Jan

P.S.: In the mean time, if anybody wants to run
NetBSD/evbarm 10.0 on EC2, you should be able to run
an a1 or t4g instance using ami-01eeb2af939d69edd in
us-east-1, which I created yesterday and made public.