The AWS builders use the m6 instance types which are arm64 based machines of varying specifications. The base type used will be m6g.xlarge 4 vCPUs, 16384 MiB.
Machine images are stored on AWS EBS service as a snapshot. New VMs can use the snapshot as an image by providing the AMI ID as the base image when a new VM is created. The machine image will be configured to install and initialize rundockerbuildlet.
Buildlet container images must be build on an arm/arm64 instance with the proper credentials. The instructions are as follows:
you@dev:~$ gcloud auth print-access-token
On an arm64 instance, clone the build repository.
cd into the env/linux-arm/aws directory.
Execute: make prod-push
When prompted for your password, paste in the access token from the first step.
Ensure /root/.docker/config.json has been deleted.