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+1. create a new satellite channel for rhel8 and rhel9 for aws
+1. census-aws-... or similar
+1. establish a couple of build machines, one for rhel8, one for 9
+1. establish a process to grab the source (github) and build
+1. document the general process in a csvd repo (a new one, census-aws-packages or somethign like that)
+   * how to do for 
+   * rpm build from spec
+   * pre-packaged rpm (add to repo)
+   * single binary or small set of binaries (rpm, ansible)?
+1. more complicated setup (aws cli, for example)?
+1. directions on how to do it for each package, minimally
+   * amazon-efs-utils
+   * amazon-ssm-agent
+1. we may want to also do such a thing for utlities which need to be deployed, like
+   * session-manager-plugin
+   * aws_signing_helper (Release Release: v1.7.0 · aws/rolesanywhere-credential-helper)
+   * aws-cli
+1. have either ansible or rpm ways to install all these things
+1. perhaps use some sort of in-aws cicd for all of them?  some are packages to build from spec, some are existing rpms to download and re-distribute (say, pop into our yum repo in satellite and on nexus)
+
+we have a lot of things we put in place for cloud stuff
+many don't have rpms
+but we need to install them on rhel boxes, sometimes on al2023 boxes (so on yum repo if rpm in nexus), and sometimes containers (apt-based)
+this is a larger enterprise problem to solve
+the signing helper, for example, newer versions use a newer glibc and fail, so they need to be re-built
+prob need to spin up a group to chat about this
+ 
+
+* pre-built rpm (easy, drop in self-hosted repo)
+  * session-manager plugin
+  * amazon-ssm-agent
+* github, with spec file, needs build
+  * amazon-efs-utils
+* github, non-spec file
+  * aws_signing_helper
+* other install
+  * awscli
+* and all the various other tools which shoudl have some packaging around them too