062 AMI

• Amazon Machine Image
• A customization of EC2 instance
  • Add your own software, config, OS, monitoring…
  • All your software is pre-packaged
• Build for a specific region, copy across regions

You can launch EC2 instance from

• A public AMI
• Your own AMI
• Marketplace AMI

AMI Process

• Start an EC2 instance
• Customize EC2
• Stop EC2
• Build AMI (this will create EBS snapshot)
• Launch instance from AMI