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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.