Have you looked at docker as a replacement for creating all those AMIs? You could have one AMI (with Docker) installed, and then use Ansible to pull whichever container (app) you want onto each instance.
Using docker also has the added advantage of letting you test your images in the development environment (and it's much faster than vagrant-up for every service you want running locally for dev/test).
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Have you looked at docker as a replacement for creating all those AMIs? You could have one AMI (with Docker) installed, and then use Ansible to pull whichever container (app) you want onto each instance. Using docker also has the added advantage of letting you test your images in the development environment (and it's much faster than vagrant-up for every service you want running locally for dev/test).