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How do I backup my S3 to AMI?
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- Use cases.
- How the AMI store and restore APIs work.
- Limitations.
- Costs.
- Securing your AMIs.
- Permissions for storing and restoring AMIs using S3.
- Work with the AMI store and restore APIs.
Can I create my own AMI?
Log in to the AWS Management Console, display the EC2 page for your region, then click Instances. Choose the instance from which you want to create a custom AMI. Click Actions and click Create Image. Type a name for Image Name that is easily identifiable to you and, optionally, input text for Image Description.
How do I create a AWS AMI?
Create an AMI from an Amazon EC2 Instance
- Right-click the instance you want to use as the basis for your AMI, and choose Create Image from the context menu. Create Image context menu.
- In the Create Image dialog box, type a unique name and description, and then choose Create Image.
How do I make an encrypted AMI?
From the EC2 console, click AMIs in the left pane, select the custom AMI that you created in Step 1, click Actions, and then select Copy AMI. This creates an AMI with encrypted snapshots from an AMI with unencrypted snapshots.
How is AMI stored in AWS?
With Amazon EC2 instance store-backed AMIs, each time you customize an AMI and create a new one, all of the parts are stored in Amazon S3 for each AMI.
How do I transfer AWS regions to AMI?
From the AMIs view of the AWS Management console select the AMI and click on Copy:
- Choose the Copy AMI operation and the Console will ask you where you would like to copy the AMI:
- After you have made your selections and started the copy you will be provided with the ID of the new AMI in the destination region:
What is EBS backed AMI?
An “EBS-backed” instance is an EC2 instance which uses an EBS volume as it’s root device. This means that an EBS volume can move from one piece of hardware to another within the same availability zone. You can think of EBS volumes as a kind of Network Attached Storage.
How do I create an AMI snapshot?
To create an AMI from a snapshot using the console Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ . In the navigation pane, choose Snapshots. Select the snapshot from which to create the AMI and choose Actions, Create image from snapshot. For Image name, enter a descriptive name for the image.
How do I build an AWS Packer AMI?
Additional Resources
- Log in to the AWS Console and navigate to Cloud9.
- sudo to root and install packer into /usr/local/bin .
- Use Cloud9 to create a packer.
- Validate the packer.
- Execute the packer build and supply the VPC ID and Subnet ID as variables.
Are AWS AMI encrypted?
Ensure that your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are encrypted to fulfill compliance requirements for data-at-rest encryption. The Amazon Machine Image (AMI) data encryption and decryption is handled transparently and does not require any additional action from your applications.
How do I encrypt EBS volume?
How to encrypt a new EBS volume
- From within the AWS Management Console, select EC2.
- Under ‘Elastic Block Store’ select ‘Volumes’
- Select ‘Create Volume’
- Enter the required configuration for your Volume.
- Select the checkbox for ‘Encrypt this volume’
- Select the KMS Customer Master Key (CMK) to be used under ‘Master Key’
Where is AMI stored in AWS?
Amazon S3
With Amazon EC2 instance store-backed AMIs, each time you customize an AMI and create a new one, all of the parts are stored in Amazon S3 for each AMI.
What permissions do I need to copy an AMI to S3?
If you use an IAM user to copy an instance store-backed AMI, the user must have the following Amazon S3 permissions: s3:CreateBucket, s3:GetBucketAcl , s3:ListAllMyBuckets, s3:GetObject , s3:PutObject, and s3:PutObjectAcl . The following example policy allows the user to copy the AMI source in the specified bucket to the specified Region.
How do I create an Amazon EBS-backed Ami?
The source instance you create the AMI from retains all data that is stored in the instance store. If your instance is running Linux, follow the instructions at Creating an Amazon EBS-Backed Linux AMI. If your instance is running Windows, see Creating a Custom Windows AMI.
How to create Linux AMIs backed by Amazon EC2?
To create Linux AMIs backed by instance store, you must create an AMI from your instance on the instance itself using the Amazon EC2 AMI tools. AMI creation is much easier for AMIs backed by Amazon EBS. The CreateImage API action creates your Amazon EBS-backed AMI and registers it.
How do I find the Amazon EC2 AMI for an instance?
Open the Amazon EC2 console. In the navigation pane, click AMIs, and select the AMI. Check the value of Root Device Type in the Details tab as follows: If the value is ebs, this is an Amazon EBS-backed AMI. If the value is instance store, this is an instance store-backed AMI.