For those who use Amazon EC2 service and were anxious about having XtraDB ready to launch there is a good news. We created a public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) with XtraDB release 8 installed on CentOS 5.3. How to use it. First make sure it is avaiable. $ ec2-describe-images ami-4701e22e IMAGE   ami-4701e22e    xtradb/centos-5.3-x86_64.fs.manifest.xml        834362721059    available       [...]