[blfr]

There are plenty of companies that will let you upload your own images. It's not very convenient. Provider's images are somewhat easier to use.

The best solution is to have maintainers of the OS prepare cloud distributions. Many already do for AWS or OpenStack. Our own 'cperciva is responsible for EC2-compatible version of FreeBSD.

Until this becomes a standard, there's nothing wrong with partial solutions. I created a FreeBSD droplet right away.

[themartorana]

Allow me to again express to @cperciva how appreciative I am of the FreeBSD EC2 image(s). We now run our entire stack on FreeBSD in EC2, and it's a joy.