1. A new --publicsnap option which marks the EBS snapshot for the AMI's
root disk as being public.
2. When sending an SNS notification about new AMIs, the SNS region is
extracted from the Topic ARN rather than using the same region as was
used for uploading the AMI.
This brings support for automatically sending SNS notifications about
new AMIs (requested by Amazon), and adjusts the "copy AMIs out to all
the regions" step to perform copies in parallel (which should speed
up the process of releasing new AMIs significantly).
of the DescribeRegions API call to get a list of EC2 regions rather than
using a static list compiled in; some users may need to update their IAM
policies to allow DescribeRegions.
Tool for uploading disk images into Amazon EC2 and creating Amazon
Machine Images from them.
This will be used to build FreeBSD/EC2 images in the future.