All Content tagged with Amazon Machine Images (AMI)

I'm trying to downsize the EBS volumes on our ec2 instances used in our ecs cluster. Previously, we would just have one ebs volume `/dev/xvda` which was encrypted. I now notice there are two...

Hello, We are planning to list our Install based product on marketplace. However, AMI based product type buyer workflow doesn't fit into our process. Need help. Currently, customer sign up on our...

Hello, I am using Amazon Linux 2023 on ec2. I have configured the environment and I am using Magento 2 on the instance. Is it possible to export the instance with the application to OVA to run...

I have a `Cloud Formation` `yaml` the builds an image using image builder services. I don't seem to find a way to change the ami name. It always uses the `AWS::ImageBuilder::ImageRecipe`'s...

I'm currently managing an EC2 Windows server that runs MSSQL database, and I'm looking to set up an automated backup process. Here’s what I want to achieve: 1. **Weekly AMI Creation:** I need to...

I've created a custom AMI myself and uploaded this to AWS. It's all working fine, except, when I spin up an EC2 instance, and look in EC2 Instance Connect, I find the default Username as root. of...

I'm using a vendor-provided AMI on the Marketplace, and it includes configs for a 50 GiB EBS root volume and a 500 GiB EBS data volume. The way that the vendor manages their software updates is by...

Hi all, quick question regarding fast launch. We have a golden ami where multiple services with multiple numbers of servers (via ASGs) use one ami (which is sysprep'd). Would enabling fast launch help...

As amazon linux 2 is reaching EOL in June of 2025 I would like to migrate 100+ ec2 instances running Amazon Linux 2 to RHEL. How would you best suggest approaching this problem?

Hi All , I have been trying to export the AMI to S3 bucket, but it seems like it got stuck at 85, I have been waited for more than 24 hours now, the AMI is about 1TB.  Do you guys experience this...

Im using packer to build new AMIs, is there a mechanism or a API call from aws to trigger a lambda whenever new AMI is created or is there any other ways

Hi, I would like to know if an AMI that was created and then deleted by me was private or public. I know that there is a default "block public sharing" setting. But I don't really know the previous...