How to Publish Shared AMIs
After creating a shared AMI, other developers can find it in the Amazon EC2 Resource Center.
To publish your AMI
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Post it in the Public AMIs Folder of the Amazon Web Services Resource Center, including the following information:
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AMI ID
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AMI manifest
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Also, add the following information (recommended, but not required):
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Publisher
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Publisher URL
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OS / Distribution
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Key Features
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Description
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Daemons / Services
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Release Notes
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If you want to, you can past the following information into the document. You must be in HTML edit mode.
<strong>AMI ID: </strong>[ami-id]<br /> <strong>AMI Manifest: </strong>[bucket/image.manifest.xml]<br /> <h2>About this &AMI;</h2> <ul> <li>Published by [Publisher] (<a href="http://www.mysite.com">[http://www.mysite.com]</a>).<br /> </li> <li>[Key Features] <br /> </li> <li>[Description]</li> <li>This image contains the following daemons / services: <ul> <li>[Daemon 1]</li> <li>[Daemon 2]</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2><strong>What's New?</strong></h2>The following changes were made on [Date].<br /> <ul> <li>[Release Notes 1]</li> </ul> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: courier new,courier"> - [Note 1]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: courier new,courier"> - [Note 2]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: courier new,courier"> - [Note 3]</span><br /> <ul>