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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AWS Management Console
  • Command Line Tools

    • 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,

    AWS Management Console

    To create an Amazon EBS-Backed AMI

    1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and click the Amazon EC2 tab.

    2. Click Instances in the Navigation pane.

      The console displays a list of current instances.

    3. Select the instance that you prepared, select Instance Actions, and click Create Image.

      The Create Image dialog box appears.

      Amazon EC2 begins creating the AMI.

    Command Line Tools

    To create an Amazon EBS-Backed AMI

    1. Enter the following command.

      PROMPT>  ec2-create-image instance_id

      Amazon EBS returns information about the volume similar to the following example.

      IMAGE ami-8675309

    2. To check whether the AMI is ready, use the following command.

      $  ec2-describe-images -o self

      Amazon EC2 returns information about the AMI.

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