Comment 2 for bug 435140

I suggest this ability to support the ec2-* names should be a requirement before the ec2-ami-tools on the Canonical EC2 images are replaced with euca2ools (assuming euca2ools is sufficiently compatible and stable for it to become the default).

It's not just Canonical's documentation which would be made simpler by this, but it would also more closely match all of the existing EC2 documentation and tutorials which have been published. Users and existing software infrastructures running images on EC2 already expect the appropriate AMI commands to be available on the images under the ec2-* names.

The closer the new images match user expectations, the easier adoption will be.