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If you are an IAM AWS user (as opposed to root user) you also need to attach the following inline policy.A vmimport service role and a policy attached to it, precisely as explained in this AWS doc.Define an s3 bucket (in a region close to you, to speed up uploads.) This will be used to upload the images for conversion to AMI.pv requires more steps such as installing a pv enabled kernel. The produced AMIs are suitable for HVM virtualization.

vmdk artifacts and vagrant boxes (.box format) In this article I am focusing on virtualbox.

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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.