Making an AMI Public

To make an AMI public

• Add the all group to the AMI's launchPermission attribute using the ec2-modify-image-attribute command, where <ami_id> is the ID of the AMI.

  PROMPT>  ec2-modify-image-attribute <ami_id> --launch-permission -a all

To check the launch permissions of an AMI

• Enter the ec2-describe-image-attribute command, where <ami_id> is the ID of the AMI.

  PROMPT> ec2-describe-image-attribute <ami_id> -l

To make an AMI private again

• Remove the all group from its launch permissions, where <ami_id> is the ID of the AMI.

  PROMPT> ec2-modify-image-attribute <ami_id> -l -r all

  This will not affect any explicit launch permissions for the AMI or any running instances of the AMI.

Example

PROMPT>  ec2-modify-image-attribute ami-2bb65342  --launch-permission -a all
launchPermission        ami-2bb65342    ADD     group   all

PROMPT> ec2-describe-image-attribute ami-2bb65342 -l
launchPermission        ami-2bb65342    group   all

PROMPT> ec2-modify-image-attribute ami-2bb65342 -l -r all
launchPermission        ami-2bb65342    REMOVE  group   all