Associating a Product Code with an AMI

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-02-01

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Associating a Product Code with an AMI

You must be the owner of an AMI to associate a product code with it. You can associate a single product code with more than one paid AMI. You might do this if you have similar versions of an AMI (for example, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version), you've assigned them all the same price, and you'd like to minimize the number of Amazon DevPay product codes you have (to make your bookkeeping easier).

To associate a product code with an AMI

  • Enter the following command:

    PROMPT>   ec2-modify-image-attribute <ami_id> --product-code <product_code>

    The <ami_id> is the AMI ID and <product_code> is the product code.

To verify the product code is associated with the AMI

  • Enter the following command:

    PROMPT>  ec2-describe-image-attribute  <ami_id> --product-code

You can't change or remove the productCodes attribute after you've set it. If you want to use the same image without the product code or associate a different product code with the image, you must reregister the image to obtain a new AMI ID. You can then use that AMI without a product code or associate the new product code with the AMI ID.

Example

The following example associates the ami-2bb65342 AMI with the 774F4FF8 product code.

PROMPT>   ec2-modify-image-attribute ami-2bb65342 --product-code 774F4FF8
		
productCodes        ami-2bb65342            productCode   774F4FF8

This example verifies that the product code is associated with the AMI.

PROMPT>  ec2-describe-image-attribute ami-2bb65342 --product-code
		
productCodes        ami-2bb65342            productCode   774F4FF8
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