ec2-deregister

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ec2-deregister ami_id

Description

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

	Note
	This command does not delete the AMI from Amazon S3.

Option Description Required

Option	Description	Required
`ami_id`	AMI identifier. Example: `ami-4fa54026`	Yes

ami_id

AMI identifier.

Example: ami-4fa54026

Yes

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

This example deregisters the ami-4fa54026 AMI.

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