FreeBSD AMI ID pages
In 2021 I started publishing FreeBSD AMI IDs in the SSM Parameter Store; this made it much easier for scripts to launch EC2 instances without needing to have hard-coded AMI IDs. (Indeed, I use this extensively in my regression testing, to launch e.g. the most recent 14.4-STABLE image.) While this is useful for scripts, it's not so useful for humans.To address this, I've added pages to the FreeBSD website with lists of AMI IDs for 15.0-RELEASE and (building on the work I did last month to start producing patched FreeBSD AMIs) lists of AMI IDs for the latest 15.0-RELEASE-pX images. I'll update the page with the latest patched AMI IDs every time I publish new patched AMIs; this will probably happen a few hours after each security advisory. These pages support filtering the list by region, architecture, flavour, and root filesystem; the formatting is rough and subject to change (feel free to send patches).
Thanks to Amazon for sponsoring this work!
Posted at 2026-02-19 18:30 | Permanent link |
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