diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/ec2.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/ec2.adoc new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/ec2.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +=== FreeBSD on EC2 + +Contact: Colin Percival + +FreeBSD is available on both amd64 (Intel and AMD) and arm64 (Graviton) EC2 instances. + +In the past quarter, a new "small" flavour of EC2 AMI has been added, without debug symbols, tests, 32-bit compatibility libraries, or the LLVM debugger, and without the Amazon SSM Agent pre-installed or the AWS CLI installed by default at first boot. + +Build performance tests are now being performed weekly using the snapshot AMIs built by the release engineering team. +These tests revealed several performance regressions which have now been fixed; in particular a bug fix to the use of the EFI RNG in the boot loader produced a dramatic speedup on Graviton instances. + +Sponsor: Amazon + +Sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva