Booting NetBSD images in AWS

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

Kia ora koutou katoa,
Oskar's message about booting NetBSD/arm in netcup.de reminded me that
I have an interest in booting NetBSD/arm in AWS.

The first problem with booting NetBSD images in AWS is that process for
loading an image file into AWS as a bootable EC2 image is manual,
convoluted and ugly. Or rather, it was. AWS created an API a few years
ago that allows arbitrary data (such as the contents of a file) to be
written directly to an EBS snapshot.

I wrote a program in Go to upload a local file into AWS as an EBS
snapshot. It's not publication quality yet, but it does work and it's
at https://github.com/lparkes/aws-snapshot.git. 

Ngā mihi,
Lloyd