Making an AMI Public
To make an AMI public
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Add the
allgroup to the AMI'slaunchPermissionattribute using the ec2-modify-image-attribute command:PROMPT><ami_id>--launch-permission -a allwhere
<ami_id>is the ID of the AMI.
To check the launch permissions of an AMI
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Use the ec2-describe-image-attribute command:
PROMPT>ec2-describe-image-attribute<ami_id>-lwhere
<ami_id>is the ID of the AMI.
To make an AMI private again
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Remove the
allgroup from its launch permissions:PROMPT>ec2-modify-image-attribute<ami_id>-l -r allwhere
<ami_id>is the ID of the AMI.This will not affect any explicit launch permissions for the AMI or any running instances of the AMI.
Example
This example makes the ami-2bb65342 AMI public:
PROMPT>ec2-modify-image-attributeami-2bb65342--launch-permission -a all launchPermission ami-2bb65342 ADD group all
This examples displays the launch permissions of the ami-2bb65342 AMI:
PROMPT>ec2-describe-image-attributeami-2bb65342-l launchPermission ami-2bb65342 group all
This example removes the all group from the permissions of the ami-2bb65342 AMI, making it private:
PROMPT>ec2-modify-image-attributeami-2bb65342-l -r all launchPermission ami-2bb65342 REMOVE group all