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> From Thorsten von Eicken
> 
> FYI, there's nothing in the EC2 API that limits instance identifiers
> (or other IDs) to 32 bits. The IDs are strings, so it's trivial for EC2 to
> add another digit when running out of 32-bit IDs.

If that's the case (and I believe you, that's always how I assumed it would be) why don't we just make the EC2 ID be ami-<uuid>?

Ewan.