I think that having the "Standard" images uploaded and listed on our website has no benefits, and only increases user confusion ("Which image type do I want?"). Especially since the only thing it impacts is the default storage type selection in AWS, but it can still be overridden in the wizard: even with a GP2 image, I can spawn either a GP2 or Standard backed instance by selecting in the wizard.
Since Amazon themselves is trying to push people to GP2, I think we should keep those and drop Standard: try to either start our Standard AMI, or the GP2 and select Standard for root storage, and you get the following message:
General Purpose (SSD) volumes provide the ability to burst to 3000 IOPS per volume, independent of volume size, to meet the performance needs of most applications and also deliver a consistent baseline of 3 IOPS/GiB. [X] Make General Purpose (SSD) the default boot volume for all instance launches from the console going forward (recommended). [ ] Make General Purpose (SSD) the boot volume for this instance. [ ] Continue with Magnetic as the boot volume for this instance. Free tier eligible customers can get up to 30GB of General Purpose (SSD) storage.
+1 Also, fedimg load will reduce to half if we drop uploading Standard images
Is anyone aware of any downside in dropping Standard images?
I think I'm +1 - @davdunc or @jdoss - any thoughts?
Also. Maybe we should not do this in the middle of a release cycle and just plan to make the change for F30 ?
I personally think we can just drop them from the website now and don't add them for arm64.
I am +1 on this.
Sounds like a good idea.
Metadata Update from @ngompa: - Issue tagged with: AWS
Metadata Update from @mhayden: - Issue assigned to mhayden
Agreed in today's cloud meeting that I'll write up a proposal to get this done. Getting the GP2 > GP3 switch approved was pretty easy here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CloudEC2gp3
Change proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CloudEC2ImagesNoStandardStorage
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