cool, that’s a great noob feature, especially for international noobs like me

There's no reason anyone should have to fish out the corresponding AMI for their region

Agreed. Anything that helps on-boarding is going to help the project get traction

here’s another example of that http://2017.clojure-conj.org/datomic-in-cloud

I considered waiting for it but think it’s better in my case just to use your packer or Jon’s Roll/Mach based recipe

since Roll is all about more control over the services being provisioned