How To Create An Ami In Aws

In this blog, I am going to Create AMI from an EC2 Instance Amazon. I need to create a backup or launch multiple copies of an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance (Amazon EC2), or I obtained a maintenance notification proposing that I create an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) of my instance.

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Create EC2 Instance in AWS

1- Click on EC2 under compute.

2- Click on Launch Instance button.

3- Select Windows Server 2019 and then click next.

4- Select the type of instance.
Click Next : Configure Instance Details.

5- Type Number of instances – 1
Network – default.
Subnets – default.
Auto-assign Public IP – default
Click on Next : Add Storage.

6- Volume size – default 30Gb.
Add one more volume – 8GB
Click Next : Add Tags.

7- Add a tag
Click on Next : Configure Security Groups.

8- Configure Security Group.
Security group name – dmz-Security
Select Protocols – RDP, Source type Anywhere
Click on Review and Launch

9- Click launch.

10- Select – Create a new key pair
Key pair name – server key pair
Select the download key pair button and then save it in your secured folder
After downloading key pair click launch instance.

11- You can see its status as running after your instance is up and running.
Select instance (DC-Server) and then click connect.

Create an AMI from an Amazon EC2 Instance

From the AWS EC2 Instances view, we can create Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) from either running or stopped instances. In this lab, I will stop my instance.

To create an AMI from an instance

1- Select your instance, click on action menu, select instance state and then select stop.

2- Click Yes, Stop.

3- Select the instance you need to use as the basis for your AMI.

Select Action, select Image and then select Create Image from the context menu.

4- Create Image context menu
Type a unique name and description, and then click on Create Image.

5- Create image request received click close.

6- When the AMI first shows up, it will be in a pending state.

7- Click on Refresh to see your AMI. In a few moments, it transitions to an available state.

8- Select snapshots under elastic block store.

9- You can see Snapshot.

10- Select Instance, click on action menu, select instance state and then click terminate.

11- Terminate instance click Yes, Terminate.

To copy an AMI using the console

1- Now you can see after deleting instance we have no volume.

2- Select AMI under Image, AMIs to display the list of AMIs available to you in the Region.
Select the AMI (server-image) to copy. Select action menu, and then select Copy AMI.

3- Destination region* – The Region where you want to copy the AMI.
Name – Type a name for AMI.
Description – By default, the description includes information about the source AMI so that we can distinguish a copy from its original. You can change description if required.
Encryption – Select checkbox to encrypt the target snapshots,
Master Key – choose the KMS key to use to encrypt the target snapshots.
We display the confirmation page to let you know that the copy operation has been launched and to provide you the ID of the new AMI. Click Copy AMI

4- Select Done.

5- Initial status of the target AMI is pending.

6- The operation is completed and the status is available.
Select the type of instance and then click on Launch

7- Click Next : Configure Instance details.

8- Type Number of instances – 1
Network – default.
Subnets – default.
Auto-assign Public IP – default
Click on Next : Add Storage.

9- Now you can see the same settings.
Volume size – default 30Gb.
Add one more volume – 8GB
Click Next : Add Tags.
Click on Next : Configure Security Groups