Share AMIs across accounts

Hi AWS, is it possible to share AWS EC2 AMIs across regions across accounts which are encrypted with Customer Managed KMS Key. If yes, is it possible using via AWS console or AWS CLI?

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Security, Identity, & Compliance Compute

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AWS Identity and Access Management Amazon EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMI)

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Arjun Goel

asked 4 months ago148 views

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Hello,

Yes this can be done either via AWS Console or AWS CLI.

You can follow the steps in the following blog which outlines the details on how this can be done

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-share-encrypted-amis-across-accounts-to-launch-encrypted-ec2-instances/

ijosealv

answered 4 months ago

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Didier_Durand

reviewed 4 months ago

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