In ElasticFox's "Machine Images" window, the "Platform" column is rarely populated with anything. I've noticed that applications
similar to ElasticFox seem to show something there (either "Linux", "Windows", or something else). Is this
a bug?
The way other consoles do this is via guess work and regular expressions. Since the only deterministic information we can glean from the "EC2 Describe Images" call is whether an AMI is Windows or non-Windows, we choose to display this to the user.
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The way other consoles do this is via guess work and regular expressions. Since the only deterministic information we can glean from the "EC2 Describe Images" call is whether an AMI is Windows or non-Windows, we choose to display this to the user.
We only show Windows since that is the only platform information we get directly from the EC2 API.