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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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Is there a place to get popular AMIs for Amazon EC2?

Amazon has a list of public AMIs: http://aws.amazon.com/amis But this list is sorted by date, not popularity, so it's practically useless for finding good AMIs, unless you know in advance what you're looking for. IIUC, There's no way to tell between…
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How to create a new public AMI for windows with a random password?

I am trying to make a windows 2008 AMI that is a nice clean 64bit starter pack (IIS, SQL express, ASP.NET MVC, etc...) I would like to make it a public AMI when its done. There in lies the problem. I can make an AMI from my image no problem. But I…
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RUN yum in Docker file not working, but yum it's working inside the container

I'm trying to build a container from amazonlinux (fedora based). If I build the image and I enter into the container the yum command works normally. However if I put the yum command inside the Dockerfile, it doesn't. It seems that fails to contact…
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inconsistent `apt-get update` behaviour on official Ubuntu AWS AMI

I get various and inconsistent errors with apt on the official Ubuntu images (ami-83e769fb). I'm using Packer to build my AMI and it fails about 40% of the time. Rerunning the script succeeds. My script runs: sudo apt-get clean all sudo apt-get…
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Amazon Linux pecl_http installed but not providing functions

I've installed PHP's pecl_http extension using the Amazon Linux php54-pecl-http Yum package. php -i shows the http.ini file loaded http.ini has the extension=http.so line in it php -m shows the HTTP module as installed pecl list shows pecl_http…
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Can I disable all TTYs in an EC2 instance?

I am maintaining an ec2 bootstrapping script for debian squeeze on github. The setup has become very minimal and I try to justify all my changes to the standard setup. Currently I am wondering whether there would be any problem with disabling all…
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Why is "Bundle Instance" disabled for EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.04?

I have an instance store (not EBS) based EC2 instance, launched from an official Ubuntu 12.04 AMI (specifically ami-25e8d351: eu-west-1, 32-bit, instance root store). It is up and running, and I've made some changes to it (installed software;…
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Decreasing Root Disk Size of an "EBS Boot" AMI on EC2

So I have followed Eric's wonderful article here: http://alestic.com/2009/12/ec2-ebs-boot-resize This was the code basically that helped me increase the default size of the AMI: ec2-run-sintances ami-ID -n 1 --key keypair.pem --block-device-mapping…
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Launching AWS Windows instance from snapshots?

I have a Windows-based Amazon EC2 instance with an EBS drive as the root device. Is it possible to launch a copy of this instance without creating an AMI - for instance, from a snapshot of the C: drive? We'd like to test something on a clone of the…
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Need to scale an Amazon EC2 instance (but JUST the storage, not the CPU)

I currently have this image: High-CPU Extra Large Instance (Amazon Linux AMI) 7 GB of memory 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each) 1690 GB of instance storage 64-bit platform I/O Performance: High API name:…
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CentOS, Amazon EC2, and EBS AMI

How do you go about finding the most "accepted" image for Amazon which allows you to store it as an EBS image. Specifically I'm looking for a CentOS image.
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AWS: How to update AMI without having to recreate the launch configuration?

We built up a web server, created an AMI from it, then created a launch configuration which launches instances from this AMI, and our ASG uses this launch configuration. We regularly install Windows updates on the web server. Every time after we do…
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Re-bundle (or update) an EC2 AMI?

I have bundled an AMI that I'm fairly satisfied with. However I know that eventually I'll need to modify it (e.g. for Debian security updates or to update other system software that I have in the AMI). Is it possible to update an image once it's…
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Does Canonical Periodically Update a Given AMI?

I've looked and looked, but I cannot find the answer to this question. Given a specific AMI ID (for example, an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AMI, published by Canonical itself), will Canonical periodically update that specific AMI ID, with new security updates?…
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Debian 8 AMI only using 8GB partition

Every Debian 8 Jessie AMI that I launch in Amazon Web Services is only putting the root OS onto an 8GB partition regardless of what I set the size to at launch time. I know there is some documentation around how the size is set when an AMI is…
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