Ubuntu
cloud-init package

  1. Bug #615545
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 615545

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Eric Hammond (esh) wrote :

Scott:

- With the CNAME solution, the requests still go to the internal IP address for standard EC2 instances.

- I don't imagine that many non-EC2 people would try to configure their Ubuntu systems to use the EC2 repositories.

- Canonical would get charged the same network fees for people outside of EC2 using the S3 solution as using the CNAME solution.

- The CNAME method only requires a change to entries in Canonical's DNS servers, no action is required with SRUs and updates to AMIs.

The only objection I've heard that makes sense is a concern about the risk of increase in cost from use by non-EC2 instances, but it sounds like Canonical is already willing to take that risk with the S3 solution.

This decision doesn't affect me personally. It just seems CNAME is the right approach and I'm not sure why it is not being adopted.