I think generally people are building their own HBase AMIs for use up on EC2, but I'd like to announce there are new public AMIs available in all of the AWS regions:

HBase 0.20.6

  us-east-1
    ami-2469834d  
      apache-hbase-images-us-east-1/hbase-0.20.6-i386.manifest.xml
    ami-2c698345
      apache-hbase-images-us-east-1/hbase-0.20.6-x86_64.manifest.xml

  us-west-1
    ami-08f7a64d
      apache-hbase-images-us-west-1/hbase-0.20.6-i386.manifest.xml
    ami-0af7a64f
      apache-hbase-images-us-west-1/hbase-0.20.6-x86_64.manifest.xml

  eu-west-1
    ami-72b49e06
      apache-hbase-images-eu-west-1/hbase-0.20.6-i386.manifest.xml
    ami-7cb49e08
      apache-hbase-images-eu-west-1/hbase-0.20.6-x86_64.manifest.xml

  ap-southeast-1
    ami-50314f02
      apache-hbase-images-ap-southeast-1/hbase-0.20.6-i386.manifest.xml
    ami-52314f00
      apache-hbase-images-ap-southeast-1/hbase-0.20.6-x86_64.manifest.xml

I also deployed AMIs for HBase version 0.89.20100726 into all regions as well. Change HBASE_VERSION in bin/hbase-ec2-env.sh to 0.89.20100726 and the scripts should pick them up automatically. However, I have not tested these. Minor edits to bin/hbase-ec2-init-remote.sh may be required.

   - Andy