diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/ec2.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/ec2.adoc new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/ec2.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +=== FreeBSD on EC2 + +Links: + +link:https://www.patreon.com/cperciva[FreeBSD/EC2 Patreon] URL: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva[https://www.patreon.com/cperciva] + +Contact: Colin Percival + +FreeBSD is available on both x86 (Intel and AMD) and ARM64 (Graviton) EC2 +instances. Work continues to ensure that upcoming instance types will be +supported, including the recently announced M7a "EPYC" instances, which +should be supported in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. + +Weekly FreeBSD snapshots were recently changed from "UEFI" boot mode to +"UEFI Preferred" boot mode, allowing them to gain the boot performance +improvement offered by UEFI while still supporting "bare metal" and +"previous generation" instance types which are not compatible with UEFI. +This change will be present in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. + +The EC2 boot scripts were recently updated to support IMDSv2. This change +will be present in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. + +If users of FreeBSD 13.2 require any of these updates, the author can provide +FreeBSD "13.2-RELEASE plus updates" AMIs. + +This work is supported by Colin's FreeBSD/EC2 Patreon.