Black Swan AMI 2013-03

You should use the ’ec2-user’ account when logging in to you instances. When you attach a volume, the device name will be /dev/xvdX, even though the Amazon Web console still displays /dev/sdX. If you want to install software, you’ll need to emerge –sync first. If you have any feature requests, bug reports, suggestions or would like to inquirer about paid support, send email to: support@blackswanent.com

Launch

Region	AMI	Launch
US-EAST-1 (N. Virginia)	ami-e668f58f	Launch
US-WEST-1 (N. California)	ami-b0dffdf5	Launch
US-WEST-2 (Oregon)	ami-d88d18e8	Launch
EU-WEST-1 (Ireland)	ami-3ea9a14a	Launch
AP-SOUTHEAST-1 (Singapore)	ami-16b7fa44	Launch
SA-EAST-1 (São Paulo)	ami-bd1bc0a0	Launch
AP-SOUTHEAST-2 (Sydney)	ami-5687166c	Launch
AP-NORTHEAST-1 (Tokyo)	ami-497ff948	Launch

Features

Fully 64-bit Gentoo
Linux Kernel 3.8.0

Packages

System Tools

net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.16-r3
sys-process/atop-2.0.2
app-shells/zsh-5.0.2
sys-process/htop-1.0.2
dev-vcs/mercurial-2.5.1
dev-vcs/bzr-2.5.1
net-misc/unison-2.45.4
dev-vcs/git-1.8.1.4
app-shells/bash-4.2_p42
sys-process/parallel-20130122
app-admin/syslog-ng-3.3.5-r1
sys-fs/s3fs-1.62
dev-vcs/subversion-1.7.7
net-misc/openssh-6.1_p1-r1
app-admin/puppet-3.1.0
app-admin/chef-10.22.0
net-analyzer/nrpe-2.14
net-analyzer/zabbix-2.0.5

Web Servers/Development

dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1e
net-proxy/haproxy-1.4.22
www-servers/apache-2.4.4-r1
www-apache/mod_wsgi-3.4
www-servers/nginx-1.2.6-r1
www-apache/passenger-3.0.19
dev-php/pecl-apc-3.1.14
dev-php/pecl-memcached-2.1.0-r1
dev-php/pecl-mongo-1.3.0

Development

dev-lang/perl-5.16.2
net-libs/nodejs-0.9.9
dev-lang/clojure-1.4.0
dev-lang/python-2.7.3-r3
dev-lang/python-3.2.3-r2 (default)
dev-lang/go-1.0.3
dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7_p371
dev-lang/ruby-1.9.3_p392 (default)
dev-ruby/rubygems-1.8.24

Caching/Database

net-misc/memcached-1.4.13
net-nds/openldap-2.4.33-r1
dev-db/mongodb-2.2.3
dev-db/redis-2.6.9
dev-db/postgresql-server-9.2.3-r1
www-servers/varnish-3.0.3
dev-db/mysql-5.5.29-r1

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