Publishing Shared AMIs
After creating a shared AMI, other developers can find it in the EC2 Resource Center.
To publish your AMI, post it in the Public AMIs Folder of the Amazon Web Services Resource Center.
You must include the following information when publishing AMIs:
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AMI ID
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AMI manifest
We recommend including the following information when publishing AMIs:
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Publisher
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Publisher URL
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OS / Distribution
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Key Features
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Description
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Daemons / Services
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Release Notes
You can cut and paste the following template into the document. You must be in HTML edit mode.
<strong>AMI ID: </strong>[ami-id]<br /> <strong>AMI Manifest: </strong>[bucket/image.manifest.xml]<br /> <h2>About this &AMI;</h2> <ul> <li>Published by [Publisher] (<a href="http://www.mysite.com">[http://www.mysite.com]</a>).<br /> </li> <li>[Key Features] <br /> </li> <li>[Description]</li> <li>This image contains the following daemons / services: <ul> <li>[Daemon 1]</li> <li>[Daemon 2]</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2><strong>What's New?</strong></h2>The following changes were made on [Date].<br /> <ul> <li>[Release Notes 1]</li> </ul> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: courier new,courier"> - [Note 1]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: courier new,courier"> - [Note 2]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: courier new,courier"> - [Note 3]</span><br /> <ul>