Creating Public AMIs Securely for EC2

Excellent timing, I've just announced on a mailing-list my first public AMI. So I'll have to check tomorrow if I made mistakes on the way :) (I'm pretty sure I haven't left anything confidential, but there might be some cruft with my keys…)

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libguestfs[1] that I helped to write provides some solutions for this, including access to secure scrub utilities[2] and this script[3] for removing "empty" space in a disk image.

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[1] http://libguestfs.org/

[2] http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#scrub_file

[3] https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/tip-making-a-disk-imag...