Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI build script - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI build script

Amazon ECS has open-sourced the build scripts that are used to build the Linux variants of the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI. These build scripts are now available on GitHub. For more information, see amazon-ecs-ami on GitHub.

The build scripts repository includes a HashiCorp packer template and build scripts to generate each of the Linux variants of the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI. These scripts are the source of truth for Amazon ECS-optimized AMI builds, so you can follow the GitHub repository to monitor changes to our AMIs. For example, perhaps you want your own AMI to use the same version of Docker that the Amazon ECS team uses for the official AMI.

For more information, see the Amazon ECS AMI repository at aws/amazon-ecs-ami on GitHub.

To build an Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI

  1. Clone the aws/amazon-ecs-ami GitHub repo.

    git clone https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-ami.git

  2. Add an environment variable for the Amazon Region to use when creating the AMI. Replace the us-west-2 value with the Region to use.

    export REGION=us-west-2

  3. A Makefile is provided to build the AMI. From the root directory of the cloned repository, use one of the following commands, corresponding to the Linux variant of the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI you want to build.

    • Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2 AMI

      make al2

    • Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2 (arm64) AMI

      make al2arm

    • Amazon ECS GPU-optimized AMI

      make al2gpu

    • Amazon ECS optimized Amazon Linux 2 (Neuron) AMI

      make al2inf

    • Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2023 AMI

      make al2023

    • Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2023 (arm64) AMI

      make al2023arm

    • Amazon ECS optimized Amazon Linux 2023 (Neuron) AMI

      make al2023neu

    • Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI

      make al1
      Important

      On April 15, 2021, the Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI ended its standard support phase and entered a maintenance support phase. In the maintenance support phase, Amazon ECS will continue providing critical and important security updates for a reduced list of packages. During this period, Amazon ECS will no longer add support for new EC2 instance types, new services and features, and new packages. Instead, Amazon ECS will provide updates only for critical and important security fixes that apply to a reduced set of packages. Maintenance support period will end on June 30, 2023.