Default AMI should not use EOL'd OS
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#20 Default AMI should not use EOL'd OS
The default AMI relies on Fedora 8 as the operating system. Fedora 8 has reached its end of life on the 7th of January 2009[1], which means that security updates are not released for it anymore. It doesn't sound prudent to use it as the default AMI.
One approach is to move to a newer Fedora (e.g. Fedora 10), but the AMI will have to be updated every 12-15 months. An alternative is to use a CentOS 5.3 AMI as it has a longer support period (the 5.x series is in the second of the seven year support period).
Probably a good idea to update the JDK to the latest released version (JDK 6 Update 13) too as there were several security fixes since the included JDK 6 Update 7.
Hey Ismeal, that sounds like a very reasonable request. I'll see if we can get this included in one of the releases.
Thank you Jason.