Creating an AMI from an Amazon EC2 Instance - Amazon Toolkit with Amazon Q
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Creating an AMI from an Amazon EC2 Instance

You can create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. For more detailed information about AMIs, see the Amazon Machine Images (AMI) topic in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud for Windows Instances User Guide.

To create an AMI from an exiting Amazon EC2 instance, complete the following procedure.

Creating an AMI from an existing Amazon EC2 instance

  1. From the Amazon Toolkit Explorer, expand Amazon EC2 and choose Instances to view a list of your existing instances.

  2. Right-click the instance that you want to use as the basis for your AMI and choose Create Image (ABS AMI) to open the Create Image dialog window.

  3. From the Create Image dialog window, add a name and a description for your image into the provided fields, then choose the OK button to continue.

  4. The Image Created confirmation window opens in Visual Studio when the image is created, choose the OK button to continue.

To view your new AMI with the Amazon Toolkit, expand Amazon EC2 and double-click AMIs to open a window in the Visual Studio Editor payne that displays a list of your existing AMIs. If you don't see you new AMI in the list, choose the Refresh button located at the top of the AMI window.