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moving images around availability zones

Presumably you mean regions here? Within any one region, you can use an AMI in any of the availability zones.

Whoops, yes of course. That's what I meant. Moving images between regions is currently a pain.

Agreed. Every time I publish a new FreeBSD AMI I spin up 7 instances and run a bunch of "dd | ssh | dd" to send the bits out to the right places.

At this point I have the entire process scripted, and it's still painful.

Imports, too - they launched an import tool about a year and a half ago, but it too only supports Windows.

We plan to support additional operating systems in the future, along with more virtualization formats.

I was excited until I found out that its currently only Windows is supported :(