SpreadServe AMI part III

The SpreadServe 0.4.2b AMI is now available in the US West Oregon region: just search for SpreadServe in public images. There’s a now YouTube video on launching a SpreadServe AMI.

Two points of interest came up in preparing the AMI: Admin password persistence, and the region bound nature of AMIs. This blog from 2013 suggests that Admin passwords don’t persist in AMIs, but I’ve found they do now. So the Administrator password for a SpreadServe 0.4.2b AMI is SpreadServe042b. If you launch your own SpreadServe instance using the AMI, then I suggest you change the password!

The SpreadServe 0.4.2b AMI is only published in the US West Oregon region. Only AMI owners can copy to another region, so if you want a SpreadServe AMI in another region you’ll need to do a simple workaround: start an image in US West Oregon, stop it and create your own image, then copy to your preferred region.