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Move EC2 mirrors to S3

2011-10-31 15:00..16:00 in Antigua 4

Instead of using hosts to front the EC2 mirrors, we should move our mirrors to being hosted on S3. There are numerous advantages to doing so -- most notably speed, lower costs, lower maintenance costs, access policies, etc. Using S3 also realizes some cost-savings for Canonical since all intra-zone transfers are free.


Summary:
1. New mirrors would be setup in each region
2. Scripts would need to be updated to use regional mirrors
3. DNS names would need to be updated