Subscribe to Amazon Windows AMI notifications - Amazon Windows AMIs
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Subscribe to Amazon Windows AMI notifications

Whenever Amazon Windows AMIs are released, we send notifications to the subscribers of the ec2-windows-ami-update topic. Whenever released Amazon Windows AMIs are made private, we send notifications to the subscribers of the ec2-windows-ami-private topic. If you no longer want to receive these notifications, use the following procedure to unsubscribe.

To be notified when new AMIs are released or when previously released AMIs are made private, subscribe to notifications using Amazon SNS.

To subscribe to Amazon Windows AMI notifications

  1. Open the Amazon SNS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/sns/v3/home.

  2. In the navigation bar, change the Region to US East (N. Virginia), if necessary. You must use this Region because the Amazon SNS notifications that you are subscribing to were created in this Region.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Subscriptions.

  4. Choose Create subscription.

  5. For the Create subscription dialog box, do the following:

    1. For Topic ARN, copy and paste one of the following Amazon Resource Names (ARNs):

      • arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:801119661308:ec2-windows-ami-update

      • arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:801119661308:ec2-windows-ami-private

      For Amazon GovCloud (US) Regions:

      arn:aws-us-gov:sns:us-gov-west-1:077303321853:ec2-windows-ami-update

    2. For Protocol, choose Email.

    3. For Endpoint, enter an email address that you can use to receive the notifications.

    4. Choose Create subscription.

  6. You'll receive a confirmation email with the subject line Amazon Notification - Subscription Confirmation. Open the email and choose Confirm subscription to complete your subscription.

To unsubscribe from Amazon Windows AMI notifications

  1. Open the Amazon SNS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/sns/v3/home.

  2. In the navigation bar, change the Region to US East (N. Virginia), if necessary. You must use this Region because the Amazon SNS notifications were created in this Region.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Subscriptions.

  4. Select the subscriptions and then choose Delete. When prompted for confirmation, choose Delete.