creating an EBS AMI

Creating an AMI from an EBS Instance

 

There is a nice simple command to create an AMI from a running, or stopped EBS backed instance.  It is ec2-create-image, which is outlined in the docs athttp://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/index.html?ApiReference-cmd-RunInstances.html [1].

 

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