fedora-14-x86_64-S3.ec2: AMIs with instance-store root device not supported for 't1.micro' ???

[sean darcy]

Amazon has started offering a year free trial: Ihttp://aws.amazon.com/free.

So I'm trying to get my first instance ever running on ec2. I'm trying
to use the x86-64 ami from
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG/EC2_Images.

But:

/opt/amazon/webservices/ec2-api-tools-1.3-57419/bin/ec2-run-instances
ami-e291668b  -k pstam-keypair
Client.InvalidParameterValue: The requested instance type's
architecture (i386) does not match the architecture in the manifest
for ami-e291668b (x86_64)

Supposedly the Micro instance in the free trial supports both 32 and 64 bit:

Micro Instance

613 MB memory
Up to 2 EC2 Compute Units (for short periodic bursts)
EBS storage only
32-bit or 64-bit platform
I/O Performance: Low
API name: t1.micro

I tried:

/opt/amazon/webservices/ec2-api-tools-1.3-57419/bin/ec2-run-instances
ami-e291668b  -t t1.micro -k pstam-keypair
Client.UnsupportedOperation: AMIs with an instance-store root device
are not supported for the instance type 't1.micro'.

The 386 ami works.

Am I doing something wrong, or does F14 64-bit image just not work as
a micro instance?

sean

[sean darcy]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:23 PM, sean darcy  wrote:
> Amazon has started offering a year free trial: Ihttp://aws.amazon.com/free.
>
> So I'm trying to get my first instance ever running on ec2. I'm trying
> to use the x86-64 ami from
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG/EC2_Images.
>
> But:
>
> /opt/amazon/webservices/ec2-api-tools-1.3-57419/bin/ec2-run-instances
> ami-e291668b  -k pstam-keypair
> Client.InvalidParameterValue: The requested instance type's
> architecture (i386) does not match the architecture in the manifest
> for ami-e291668b (x86_64)
>
> Supposedly the Micro instance in the free trial supports both 32 and 64 bit:
>
> Micro Instance
>
> 613 MB memory
> Up to 2 EC2 Compute Units (for short periodic bursts)
> EBS storage only
> 32-bit or 64-bit platform
> I/O Performance: Low
> API name: t1.micro
>
> I tried:
>
> /opt/amazon/webservices/ec2-api-tools-1.3-57419/bin/ec2-run-instances
> ami-e291668b  -t t1.micro -k pstam-keypair
> Client.UnsupportedOperation: AMIs with an instance-store root device
> are not supported for the instance type 't1.micro'.
>
> The 386 ami works.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or does F14 64-bit image just not work as
> a micro instance?
>
> sean

Well it appears that the 32 bit image doesn't work either as a micro
instance! Is this a result of the images being "instance-store" rather
than EBS backed images? Whatever that means.

AFAICS, none of the the F14 images work under the free tier :-(

sean

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On 11/7/2010 16:12, sean darcy wrote:
> Well it appears that the 32 bit image doesn't work either as a micro
> instance! Is this a result of the images being "instance-store" rather
> than EBS backed images? Whatever that means.

Yes.  You will need to create or wait for a EBS-backed image first.

[Marek Goldmann]

On 2010-11-07, at 23:12, sean darcy wrote:
> Well it appears that the 32 bit image doesn't work either as a micro
> instance! Is this a result of the images being "instance-store" rather
> than EBS backed images? Whatever that means.

You can read more about differences for example here:

http://www.magpiebrain.com/2010/07/19/aws-s3-vs-ebs-backed-instances/

And EBS is explained here:

http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/

HTH

--Marek

[Brian LaMere]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:12 PM, sean darcy  wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:23 PM, sean darcy  wrote:
> > Amazon has started offering a year free trial: Ihttp://
>
> aws.amazon.com/free.

(snip)
> Supposedly the Micro instance in the free trial supports both 32 and 64

bit:

Just to clarify - the 32bit/64bit part has nothing to do with what is not
working.  Amazon has two options for the mounted filesystems; EBS, and S3.
 They made a decision for some reason that the micro size would only be
available to EBS-backed AMIs - which is odd, considering that a micro should
be the most throw-away, and ebs is more permanent than S3.  The Fedora AMIs
are currently only available as S3-backed images.  Those will be converted
to EBS soon, however - at which point you'll be able to use the micro
instances with the official Fedora AMIs.

Does that makes sense?  The error message you got gave this answer, but was
cryptic - and we can't really get in the business of helping construct
ec2-run-instances commands, and interpreting the results - that's a bit
outside the scope of the group, I'd think (you'd have the same result if you
were running that command on a solaris workstation, to build an ubuntu
instances; it's not Fedora on the Cloud-related). You should try euca2ools
anyway, works better ;)

Brian LaMere