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https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/faqs/#amis : "Q: Can I use my own AMIs? No, however you can customize the AMIs OpsWorks supports using Chef scripts to install agents and other software that you require."

This makes OpsWorks useless if you want to autoscale with any reasonable "nimbleness" - meaning the amount of time it will take to wait for a non-custom AMI to be bootstrapped with chef client and then load and run all my standard and customized cookbooks is way too long... I need to be able to specify custom AMIs that are already largely prepared so they can boot fast. Also, the Chef bootstrap process is brittle. twice in as many weeks it has been broken by dependency fails. (First, a net-ssh dependency, then a JSON gem dependency).




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