Need AWS setup with the following information in a file called ~/.aws_secrets:

access_key_id: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key: THE_ASSOCIATED_SECRET_KEY
keypair_name: KEYPAIR_ID
keypair_path: PATH_TO_KEYPAIR_PEM

ALSO put your access and secret keys in environment variables in your .bashrc or similar (for packer):

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=THE_ASSOCIATED_SECRET_KEY

• Vagrant 1.2+: http://vagrantup.com
• Packer 0.1.4+: http://packer.io
• Vagrant AWS Plugin:

 vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws

• Modify packer/ubuntu.json
• Source AMI
• Region

cd packer
packer validate ubuntu.json
packer build ubuntu.json
vagrant box add ubuntu-aws-us-east packer__aws.box
cd ..

• Modify Vagrantfile
• Instance size

vagrant up --provider=aws
vagrant ssh

vagrant destroy -f

Packer creates an AMI on your AWS account, so you need to clean it up so you don't need to pay for it.

• AWS Console -> Images -> AMIs -> Select AMI -> Actions -> Deregister
• AWS Console -> Elastic Block Store -> Snapshots -> Select Snapshot -> Delete

• AWS Console -> Elastic Block Store -> Volumes -> Select Volumes -> Actions -> Delete Volume

• Multi node coordination (need support from vagrant-aws)
• Multi-AZ/Region coordination??
• CentOS support (pending packer merge: hashicorp/packer#138)
• Virtualbox support