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📦 Use raw image format for AWS

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Although the vhdx format is smaller than raw, AWS often has some issues
booting instances from an imported vhdx snapshot. The raw format seems
to boot consistently at AWS.

Fixes #754.

Signed-off-by: Major Hayden <major@redhat.com>
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Major Hayden 2020-07-02 11:48:21 -05:00 • committed by Major Hayden
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@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ popular cloud computing platform. It conforms to Amazon’s
EC2 uses Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) internally, which can only be created
inside EC2. An image in a standard format (ova, vmdk, vhd/x, or raw) must be
imported from S3 storage. *osbuild-composer* generates this image type in the
VHDX format, because it is fairly modern, widely used, and uses less space than
RAW images.
RAW format for the best compatibility with AWS.
This image is availble for `x86_64` and `aarch64`, because those are the only
This image is available for `x86_64` and `aarch64`, because those are the only
architectures available in EC2.
EC2 doesn't require any specialized firmware. Thus, in order to keep the