Creating an Amazon EBS-Backed AMI

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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Creating an Amazon EBS-Backed AMI

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How To

This section describes how to create an AMI that uses an Amazon EBS volume as its root device, which is easier to create than AMIs that use instance stores as their root devices. More importantly, instances launched from these AMIs launch faster and use persistent storage. For more information, see AMI and Instance Concepts.

[Note] Note

If you are creating an AMI that uses an instance store as its root device, see .Creating an AMI.

Amazon EBS-backed instances are stored as Amazon EBS snapshots. Standard storage rates apply.

This procedure is applicable for both Amazon EBS-backed Linux/UNIX and Windows AMIs.

Sysprep does not automatically run for Amazon EBS-backed Windows instances,

How To

To create an Amazon EBS-Backed AMI

  1. If you are using SOAP, construct the following request:

    <CreateImage xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <InstanceId>instance_id</InstanceId>
</CreateImage>

  2. If you are using Query, construct the following request:

    https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=CreateImage
&Size=instance_id
&...auth parameters...

  3. View output similar to the following: 

    <CreateImageResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <instanceId>ami-8675309</instanceId>
</CreateImageResponse>
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