Are EBS backed RHEL AMIs available to EC2 Basic subscribers?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x - 6 AMI (RHEL 5.x - 6) on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

Issue

  • When viewing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) available to a EC2 Beta account, only S3 backed images are listed.  Are there any EBS (Elastic Block Storage) images available?

Resolution

  • EBS images are only available to customers with Premium subscriptions.  There are no plans to make EBS backed images available to customers with beta test accounts.  For details on how to obtain a Premium license, please visit the following link:  http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/amazon/

  • Click the "Subscribe Now" button below the section labelled "Cloud Access feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Premium subscriptions."  The program will be explained on the following pages before any fees are asked for.

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