How to Publish Shared AMIs

To publish your AMI

1. Post it in the Public AMIs Folder of the Amazon Web Services Resource Center, including the following information:

   • AMI ID

   • AMI manifest

2. Also, add the following information (recommended, but not required):

   • Publisher

   • Publisher URL

   • OS / Distribution

   • Key Features

   • Description

   • Daemons / Services

   • Release Notes

3. If you want to, you can paste the following information into the document. You must be in HTML edit mode.

   <strong>AMI&nbsp;ID: </strong>[ami-id]<br />
   <strong>AMI&nbsp;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&#39;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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;[Note 1]</span><br />
   <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: courier new,courier">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;[Note 2]</span><br />
   <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: courier new,courier">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;[Note 3]</span><br />
   <ul>