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Re:FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS by cperciva on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:55AM (#11486477)
Huh. To me, "go out and get the latest release automatically" is terrifying; you should be testing new releases before you deploy them.

It would be simple enough to extract the AMI numbers from FreeBSD release announcements though; the main reason I encourage people to use the Marketplace AMIs is that the AWS Marketplace provides useful statistics about how many instances are running.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS by helper on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @11:56AM (#11489311)
Maybe "release" isn't the correct term. Ubuntu publishes new AMIs with the latest security patches quite regularly. When I spin up a new instance on say 14.04 I want it to boot with a fully patched kernel.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS by takeda on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:30PM (#11490896)
IIRC The EC2 FreeBSD applies all new security patches and reboots (if there were any) on first start.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS by cperciva on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:36PM (#11491975)
Correct. (This behaviour can be disabled via EC2 user-data.)
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