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Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are disk images of an operating system used to launch AWS EC2 instances.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are disk images of an operating system used to launch AWS EC2 instances. There are several variants including instance store based, EBS based, paravirtualized (PV), hardware virtual machine (HVM), Linux, Windows, pay-per-use, etc.

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How can I create an Amazon Machine Image from a large VMDK file?

I am in the process of attempting to create an Amazon Machine Image from a large (160 GB) VMDK disk image of a virtual machine running Linux; however, I keep running up against notices about a 10 GB limit for AMIs. Is there a way to upload large…
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Create image (EBS AMI) takes forever - possibly caused MySQL Server to break?

I'm trying to create an EBS AMI from my running EC2 instance to reuse my LAMP fully configured (for my needs). I got my website up and running yesterday on this EC2 instance my MySQL was working fine until this morning (it's not that difficult to…
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AWS instances: AMI bundles and snapshots and bears, oh my

I've googled a good amount and am still pretty confused and feeling like I'm missing or overlooking something. My goal is to restore a host using a bundle. I have an AMI bundle of a now-nonexistent instance sitting in S3. I've registered the bundle…
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Force nginx 1.0 on Amazon EC AMI

I'm trying to install nginx from the nginx official repositories. I downloaded the nginx-release-rhel*.rpm from nginx.org and installed it with yum. But, altough a new nginx-debug package is available from the new nginx repo, the available version…
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Amazon EC2 instance-reboot on EBS backed instances

I received notification that many of my EC2 instances will be rebooted for scheduled maintenance. They are scheduled for an "instance-reboot," which makes sense because most of my instances are S3 backed. However, I have EBS instances that are…
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Changing MySQL Data Directory on EC2

I have an EC2 instance set up and I'm trying to move the MySQL data directory to mounted storage. The default data directory is: /opt/bitnami/mysql/data I've copied that directory entirely to /mnt/mysql_data Then I changed the path in my.cnf to…
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What happen to the fee when an EC2 Reserved AMI is updated?

Is there a way to update an AMI instead of creating a new one? The reason I ask is that, I would like to convert my current EC2 Instance to Reserved Instance in order to get a lot of discount. But what would happen once I have a Reserved Instance…
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Root user on Ubuntu 11.10 AMI?

I am new to linux, so this may be a very simple question. I have created a modified ami using the ubuntu 11.10 as a starting point. All of the tutorials I have found say that to save an instance you must be the root user, but I have only been able…
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resolv.conf cache behavior difference? Centos 5.6 vs AMZN Linux

Machine 1: Centos 5.6 AMI Machine 2: Amazon Linux AMI Beta I changed resolv.conf on both to get around an apparent DNS hiccup/lag last week, by appending 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' to the file. The CentOS box picked it up and ran with it. Amzn Linux…
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How do you create a SimpleDB on Amazon EC2?

Where exactly could I start creating a SimpleDB, I will be using PHP as the client. I can't find it anywhere on the AWS console.
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Convert Amazon AMI to Eucalyptus EMI

What are the steps to convert an Amazon EBS backed AMI to an Eucalyptus EMI? Can we even do that? What are the steps to convert an Amazon instance store AMI to an Eucalyptus EMI?
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create an ebs micro instance from ami for large one

I have a running large instance (with ephemeral storage), and I need to run several copies on micro instances (with ebs storage) for development / testing purposes. What is the simplest way?
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When I Re-Bundle An AMI On Amazone EC2 - Can Anybody Access It?

Are all re-bundled AMIs available to the public? What is this about "public" and "private" AMIs? And why so much worry about leaving "your keys" on the AMI after re-bundling? Is it safe to create an AMI with sensitive data on it? Will anybody else…
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Where to get domu images for quick deployment

I'm looking for a place where I can get prebuilt xen domu images like the readymade AMI's that amazon provides for quick deployment, but freely available to integrate into non EC2 environments. Do You have any suggestions?
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Spot instance windows auto login in User Data using Boto3

I want to launch a Windows spot instance on AWS with a specific AMI and launch the instance and run PowerShell command. The problem i am facing issue is that, when the instance is launched, it shows "Running" on the EC2 dashboard but the Windows was…
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