Wherever you live in the world, you have probably been impacted by COVID-19, either by social distancing, quarantines, or even just trying to find groceries at your local market. You might wonder what you can do to help in the fight against COVID-19.

We have had a number of customers request the need to be able to create their own Cloud Servers images rather than taking snapshots from our base installs. To fulfill this need, we are announcing a new tool as a preview today called boot.rackspace.com. The tool enables you to utilize the various Linux distributions installers to install directly to the disk of your Cloud Server.