I wish they had released this new feature a year ago - it would have saved me a lot of effort setting up both customers and my EC2 backed applications.
I'll use this in the future, and I will convert my own permanent EC2 instance. There is a bit of trickery that I had to learn to auto mount EBS volumes when my AMIs start up - some Ruby scripting code I probably won't have to use anymore.
You mention conversion ... Anybody have any suggestions about how to convert an S3-backed AMI to an EBS backed one (linux)? I'm wondering if there's some grub trickery that needs to happen over and above the file copies to make booting work?
I'll use this in the future, and I will convert my own permanent EC2 instance. There is a bit of trickery that I had to learn to auto mount EBS volumes when my AMIs start up - some Ruby scripting code I probably won't have to use anymore.