ec2-register

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-02-01

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ec2-register

 Syntax

ec2-register manifest

Description

Registers the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) specified in the manifest file and generates a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID.

Options

Option Description Required

manifest

Location and filename of the manifest file. The manifest file must be located in Amazon S3 and must be in the bucket/object form.

Example: mybucket/image.manifest.xml

Yes

Output

Amazon EC2 assigns and returns an AMI ID.

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example registers the AMI specified in the image.manifest.xml manifest file.

$ ec2-register mybucket/image.manifest.xml
IMAGE ami-78a54011

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