

The produced AMIs are suitable for HVM virtualization.vmdk artifacts and vagrant boxes (.box format) In this article I am focusing on virtualbox. Virtualization engine that can produce.It turns out that this is possible using AWS ImportImage. It would be great if we could create our customized OS image either through an interactive installation or in an automated way via Packer and import it as an AMI in EC2. Some times though there is a need to create an AMI from an existing virtualization source e.g. Those AMIs can be used as a basis for customized AMIs, generated for example using the excellent packer amazon-ebs builder. For example the ones owned by Amazon can be searched per region usingĪws -region eu-central-1 ec2 describe-images -owner amazon There are a large number of publicly available AMIs.

Continuing the trend of AWS-related articles, this time I am looking at how to generate an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an ISO source.
