+link:https://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-ec2-boot-performance/[EC2 Boot performance over time] URL: link:https://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-ec2-boot-performance/[]
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+Contact: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
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+FreeBSD is available on both amd64 (Intel and AMD) and arm64 (Graviton) EC2 instances.
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+In the past quarter, first boot performance of ZFS AMIs has been significantly improved, e.g. from about 22 seconds to about 11 seconds for 15.0 "base" AMIs on amd64.
+Graphs of boot performance over time are now being generated and published automatically; typical times are around 9-12 seconds for "base" and "small" AMIs and 14-18 seconds for "cloud-init" AMIs.
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+On Graviton systems, the EC2 "shutdown" and "reboot" operations now work as intended (starting with FreeBSD 14.2).
+On Graviton systems, adding new devices (e.g. EBS volumes) while the system is running now works in HEAD and support is expected to be merged in time for FreeBSD 14.3.