Amazon EC2 & DevOps · 2024
AMI Automation
Servers that boot ready, not snowflakes
Before
Hours / snowflake
After
Minutes / golden
Gain
~80% faster
Challenge
Manual EC2 builds meant drift, missed patches, and half-day provisioning.
Solution
Packer pipelines with Ansible hardening: patches, baseline security, app stack, and monitoring agents baked in.
Outcomes
- ~80% faster provisioning vs manual
- Consistent environments across stages
- Security baseline before first login