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by mborromeo 5467 days ago
This is a great news, thanks for your efforts on this!

However, it's really sad to have to pay the Microsoft toll over FreeBSD (afaik Windows EC2 Instances are a bit more expensive because the cost of the OS licence is factored into the hourly cost). I hope Amazon will do something about this, like providing HVM-based Unix instances.

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I hope Amazon will do something about this, like providing HVM-based Unix instances.

We can hope. I have a feeling that the larger the number of people running FreeBSD in EC2, the more likely they are to change this.