ec2-deregister

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2007-08-29

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ec2-deregister

Syntax

ec2-deregister ami_id

Description

Deregisters the specified AMI. Once deregistered, the AMI cannot be used to launch new instances.

[Note] Note

This command does not delete the AMI from Amazon S3.

Options

Option Description Required

ami_id

AMI identifier.

Example: ami-4fa54026

Yes

Output

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

  • A record type identifier ("IMAGE")

  • The image identifier that was deregistered

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example deregisters the ami-4fa54026 AMI:

$ ec2-deregister ami-4fa54026
IMAGE ami-4fa54026

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