The Cloud Market

You can now easily launch any image from TheCloudMarket using...

Fri, 13 May 2011 07:19:00 -0400

You can now easily launch any image from TheCloudMarket using the Amazon AWS Console or Rightscale (where available).

Check out an example for this Ubuntu image.

More than 11000 AMIs are now available across all regions! 6700...

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:06:07 -0500

More than 11000 AMIs are now available across all regions!

6700 just on US East region!

Fedora 14 images on EC2

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:29:07 -0500

Fedora 14 images on EC2:

The Fedora Project just made available Fedora 14 along with AMIs for EC2 that you can find on TheCloudMarket

New Amazon region in the US West coast

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:36:00 -0500

You may have already heard about the new region added last week to Amazon Web Services and particularly Amazon EC2 in the US west coast.

We are already indexing the images in the new region (almost a hundred so far!) and you can filter your searches to choose the region that suits best your needs.

Socializing: introducing image ratings and comments

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:15:00 -0500

From today you can see on TheCloudMarket Amazon AMIs ratings and comments made by other users that hopefully will help you make a decision on what image to choose.

For any image, you can see the ratings, the comments, and if you make searches you can sort them by their rating.

If you have an account (sign up, it’s free!) you can rate and add comments yourself.

Enjoy!

Our Amazon EC2 wishlist

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:08 -0400

There are a couple features on EC2 that we would love to see implemented.

Ability to link to the AWS console pages for each AMI.

We would like to have a link to “Run this image” from our image details page (ie. http://thecloudmarket.com/image/ami-e40f2790 ) that would take the user to the aws console page where he enters all the info before launching (number of images to run, keypar,…).
It’d be very helpful for image providers too, so they can have the same sort of link on their websites.

Ability to get the offeringCodes from the productCodes.

We can see all the images that are associated to a product from the EC2 API but there’s no way to get to the product page with just that information, you need to search in google to figure out what the “buy this image” link is (the one like https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/user/subscription/index.html?offeringCode=xxxxxx).

With the offering codes we can provide “Proceed to buy” links in the image details pages, for instance for the Amazon DevPay example.

Where do we get our data from?

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0400

The Cloud Market provides a directory of Amazon images. We use Amazon EC2 API to get the list of all the available AMIs almost real time, which includes a name, architecture, region, owner code and a few more other things. You can keep an eye on the RSS feed of images as they are available on EC2.

For some well known images we automatically assign a name to them, based on some common patterns. For example, for Alestic images.

Then we go to the Amazon Wiki list of AMIs where there is information about a few of the images, and we parse that into our site, so you don’t have to do it twice. For instance you can find information about the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Base Install image, and the same information in The Cloud Market.

And obviously you can always claim your images and update the information yourself, from the web interface.

It is very easy, you just signup and next to the images you’ll see a claim this image link. We’ll ask you to upload a file to S3 in the same bucket the AMI is and all your images under the same Amazon account will be associated with your TheCloudMarket user, giving you access to update the information about you, your organization (logo, description, url, twitter) and your images.

If you have paid AMIs using Amazon DevPay, then it is also very easy to allow people that landed in your AMI page to buy them in one step. Go to the Products tab in your AMI and add your Product Offering Code provided by Amazon (you can get it from the product link, ie. https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/user/subscription/index.html?offeringCode=1FE31479).

We will automatically get the information in the product’s page and a Proceed to buy link will be displayed along with your image information, helping you connect to people searching for images. Check it out at the Amazon Demo Image for DevPay page.

AMIs by image provider over time, for the top providers. You can...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:08:22 -0400

AMIs by image provider over time, for the top providers. You can show/hide any of them in our stats page.

Right now the top 20 providers are:

One of the latest features added to the site are statistics on...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:32:18 -0400

One of the latest features added to the site are statistics on EC2 AMIs: by region, by platform and by owner, both the totals and over time!

Getting the information from Amazon image listings

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:57:00 -0400

We have just dumped all the information available in the Amazon collaborative wiki image list into the site.

If you submitted information there about your image, good news! the information is already in TheCloudMarket. We parse the wiki and extract the name, description, and all the other info as an attached readme.

For instance, check the Java Web Starter AMI provided by Amazon wiki page and the page at TheCloudMarket.

RSS feeds available

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:06:29 -0400

You can be up to date with what images are being added to Amazon EC2 with the RSS feeds of recently added and recently updated images.

EC2 and OS Platforms

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:19:00 -0400

We have been working on adding more and more data to the site, and now we can identify all the windows and *nix images, including flavors Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, RedHat, Gentoo, Debian, SuSe and OpenSolaris.

You can see all the platforms in the lower right of the main page.

We are OPEN!

Fri, 22 May 2009 13:47:00 -0400

We have opened the doors on The Cloud Market! Now you can see the information about all the images and if you re a publisher, register to edit their details.

For example you can find Ubuntu Intrepid images bublished by the Ubuntu project both in 32 and 64 bit and in the US and European regions.

We are hoping over time to build up more and more functionality to help people find the AWS images they need quickly and effectively and also allowing them to track the evolution of images (both paid and free)

European images now available

Thu, 21 May 2009 15:54:00 -0400

We have added European images to the site. Now you can easily see the region for each of the AMIs.

For example, check the Amazon DevPay Example AMIs.

The Cloud Market and Amazon Paid images

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:45:00 -0400

You can add information about your paid images (Amazon DevPay) providing users a centralized place for information, including pricing, and with a link to buy your product.

For instance, check the Amazon DevPay example AMI

Opening the registration for a limited time

Thu, 14 May 2009 18:21:21 -0400

We are opening the registration to our followers for a limited time. Sign up at http://www.thecloudmarket.com/signup?invite=iloveclouds

Got public images, then come in and claim them to add more...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:17:04 -0400

Got public images, then come in and claim them to add more information, including information about you as a image provider.

Get the default details of a machine image, and see who owns it...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:16:17 -0400

Get the default details of a machine image, and see who owns it - also coming is requesting scan for installed packages and more

A peek inside the soon to be released site

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:15:21 -0400

A peek inside the soon to be released site

The Big Day Is Getting Closer

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:14:00 -0400

Our production server is up and ready, if you are interested in getting more information here over there and sign up, we’ll e-mail you as soon as we are open (or probably before).

Right now we are starting to look for people who have public AMI images in order to test the site and also set-up their shop fronts before we are open to the public. This means you can claim your images and start populating more information about them to make them taggable, searchable and more. If you are interested drop us a line.