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Huh. To me, "go out and get the latest release automatically" is terrifying; you should be testing new releases before you deploy them.

It would be simple enough to extract the AMI numbers from FreeBSD release announcements though; the main reason I encourage people to use the Marketplace AMIs is that the AWS Marketplace provides useful statistics about how many instances are running.

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Maybe "release" isn't the correct term. Ubuntu publishes new AMIs with the latest security patches quite regularly. When I spin up a new instance on say 14.04 I want it to boot with a fully patched kernel.

IIRC The EC2 FreeBSD applies all new security patches and reboots (if there were any) on first start.

Correct. (This behaviour can be disabled via EC2 user-data.)

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