Colin is available for consulting on FreeBSD/EC2 if anyone wants to support further work on FreeBSD/EC2. When he's not working on FreeBSD, Colin spends most of his time running his online backup service .

For lists of FreeBSD AMI IDs, please consult the appropriate FreeBSD release announcement; you can also launch FreeBSD through the AWS Marketplace .

Obsolete AMIs

The following AMIs were released earlier (and remain available) but have been obsoleted by newer AMIs built from the respective branches. Using them is almost certainly a bad idea, since these contain bugs (on some 8.x and 9-CURRENT images, quite severe stability issues) which have been fixed in the newer AMIs.

On AMIs up to FreeBSD 8.3 and between FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1-RC1, you need to SSH in as root instead of ec2-user.