I'm writing to urge you to consider using a run time build script instead of a binary AMI file.

As you say in the description

Existing EC2 AMIs have out of date Drupal versions or don't store your data safely.

It is very easy for these projects to fall out of date. If you use a build script that pulls down the latest version of Drupal every time then you can base the AMI on a specific OS (perhaps the Ubuntu installations from alestic.com) and have the build script install/configure everything.

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As I read more I see this is based on FC8 and that you take in a drupal version as a startup argument so I guess you've handled that problem. Now it's just a matter of image maintenance (i.e. the OS and mysql versions etc.) so I'm marking this by design...