Why you should build your AMI with an EBS root device
By Ramon - Last updated: Thursday, February 10, 2011 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment
… more to come…
the main reason NOT to is cost since AMI’s with instance root devices are stored in S3 whereas those with EBS root devices are stored in EBS which costs more but is faster.
I guess I better publish this stub and clean it up later. more to come…