Steps To Create your own AMI
Step 1: Click on the launch instance button on the AWS management console.
Step 2: Now you will be asked to select an already available AMI. Select the Free tier and then select the Amazon Linux 2 AMI.
Step 3: Select t2.micro eligible (Instance types in aws) for the free tier. Now click on next: configure Instance details.
Step 4: Here you can select the various configurations related to the EC2 instance. Click on Next: Add storage.
Step 5: Select the amount of storage you want for the EC2 instance. Click on Next: Add tags and then click Next: configure security groups.
Step 6: Here you can add the security groups to allow the desired traffic for your instance. Click on review and launch.
Step 7: Review all the configurations regarding the EC2 instance. Click on Launch.
Step 8: Choose to create a new key pair option and write the key pair name. Download the key pair and then click on the launch instance.
Step 9: We can see that the instance is launched and running in a healthy state. Now It is required to create the Amazon Machine Image of this instance.
Step 10: Click on actions. Go to the image and then click on create an image.
Step 11: A prompt will open wherein you are required to write the name of the image. Click on create an image.
Step 12: The image creation request is received. Now the image will be created. Click on close. Now go to AMI services in the AWS management console.
Step 13: The AMI image of our instance is created successfully.
What is Amazon Machine Image (AMI)?Pricing Of AMI
An Amazon Machine Image is a special type of virtual appliance that is used to instantiate (create) a virtual machine within EC2. It serves as the basic unit of deployment for services delivered using EC2. Whenever you want to launch an instance, you need to specify AMI. To launch instances, you can also use different AMIs. If you want to launch multiple instances from a single AMI, then you need multiple instances of the same configuration.
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