Currently, the CloudFormation templates build the server on demand. This takes a long time and on small hosts may cause the EC2 UserData script to time out. Initially I overcame the slowness by building on the RAMDISK but that causes OOM on small hosts. So, prebuilt binaries are preferred.
Currently, the CloudFormation templates build the server on demand. This takes a long time and on small hosts may cause the EC2 UserData script to time out. Initially I overcame the slowness by building on the RAMDISK but that causes OOM on small hosts. So, prebuilt binaries are preferred.