Iam trying to export vm and the error is The image ID (ami-0000000000) provided contains AWS-licensed software and is not exportable.

Question

Iam trying to export vm

my code is aws ec2 create-instance-export-task --instance-id i-***************** --target-environment vmware --export-to-s3-task file://C:\file.json
 
file.json code is

{
    "ContainerFormat": "ova",
    "DiskImageFormat": "VMDK",
    "S3Bucket": "export-bucket-20211",
    "S3Prefix": "vms/"
}

the Error is

An error occurred (NotExportable) when calling the CreateInstanceExportTask operation: The image ID (ami-***************) provided contains AWS-licensed software and is not exportable.

Answer

It looks like you are trying to export an instance which was created from image in AWS Marketplace. The other option is that your EC2 instance may contain third-party software provided by AWS. For example, VM Export cannot export Windows or SQL Server instances.
Please check this document for more details - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexport.html#vmexport-limits

Iam trying to export vm and the error is The image ID (ami-0000000000) provided contains AWS-licensed software and is not exportable.

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