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by fromthestart 2511 days ago
>Who on Earth is thinking that it is a good idea to take an EBS snapshot and make it public?

Maybe they're trying to reproduce functionality of docker? It would actually be extremely useful for research involving modeling/AI because you could trivially reproduce the results by bundling the exact code and data.

Edit: actually maybe I'm confusing EBS snapshots with AMIs...