How to Create an Amazon EC2 AMI That is Larger Than 10GB
http://blog.dt.org/index.php/2009/06/how-to-create-an-amazon-ec2-ami-that-is-larger-than-10gb/
Recently, I have been dealing with an issue surrounding the 10GB size limit for AMIs within Amazon’s EC2 service. If you don’t what I’m talking about, here is a quick primer: a virtual instance running within Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service is launched from a read-only boot image that Amazon refers to as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI); Amazon has set the upper size limit for an AMI to be 10GB, and this restricts the amount of disk content that can be loaded on to the instance at boot.
