New zesty images with cloud-init 0.7.9-38-g83606ae-0ubuntu1 or better should now identify brightbox by looking for brightbox.com in the serial as Neil suggested in comment 11.
It does not appear that the change is made on the host side yet. I launched an instance just now and see: $ ( cd /sys/class/dmi/id && sudo grep -r . *) 2>/dev/null bios_date:01/01/2007 bios_vendor:Seabios bios_version:0.5.1 chassis_type:1 chassis_vendor:Red Hat modalias:dmi:bvnSeabios:bvr0.5.1:bd01/01/2007:svnRedHat:pnKVM:pvrRHEL6.6.0PC:cvnRedHat:ct1:cvr: power/control:auto power/async:disabled power/runtime_enabled:disabled power/runtime_active_kids:0 power/runtime_active_time:0 power/runtime_status:unsupported power/runtime_usage:0 power/runtime_suspended_time:0 product_name:KVM product_uuid:9D740B41-32E9-47B7-E119-2B8884E27421 product_version:RHEL 6.6.0 PC sys_vendor:Red Hat uevent:MODALIAS=dmi:bvnSeabios:bvr0.5.1:bd01/01/2007:svnRedHat:pnKVM:pvrRHEL6.6.0PC:cvnRedHat:ct1:cvr: -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1661693 Title: identify brightbox platform to enable Ec2 datasource To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1661693/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
