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Hands-on Lab - creating an amazon machine image (AMI) from an EBS-backed EC2 instance

Hands-on Lab - creating an amazon machine image (AMI) from an EBS-backed EC2 instance - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Hands-on Lab - creating an amazon machine image (AMI) from an EBS-backed EC2 instance

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- [Instructor] Let's learn how to create an Amazon Machine Image from an EBS-backed EC2 instance. But first, what is an AMI? An Amazon machine image or AMI is a blueprint for an EC2 instance containing all the information needed for launching an instance with a chosen configurations. This includes the operating system, custom settings, and installed applications. In AWS, you get access to basic AMIs. These come with different operating systems and software packages. You can launch an EC2 server from a basic AMI and customize it by setting up the configurations you need or installing specific software. Then you can create a new AMI from this modified version. This way, you save all your customizations, giving you a personalized AMI for future use. During the creation of an AMI, Amazon EC2 take snapshots of the root volume and any other Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes that are attached to it. This process ensures that both the configuration and the state of all attached EBS volumes…

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