What's New Welcome Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Creating and Preparing AMIs Creating an AMI Starting with an Existing AMI Creating an AMI through a Loopback File Bundling an AMI Sharing AMIs Shared AMI Guidelines Sharing AMIs Making an AMI Public Sharing an AMI with Specific Users Publishing Shared AMIs Creating Paid AMIs Paid and Supported AMIs Summary of How Paid AMIs Work Summary of How Supported AMIs Work Product Registration Associating a Product Code with an AMI Sharing Your Paid AMI with Select Users or the Public Confirming an Instance Is Running an AMI Associated with a Product Code Getting the Product Code from Within an Instance Launching and Using Instances Instance Usage Instance Types Instance Metadata Instance Storage Using Shared AMIs Paying for AMIs Get Console Output and Reboot Instances Instance Addressing and Network Security Instance Addressing Network Security Concepts Examples Using the APIs Using the SOAP API Using the Query API API Reference API Conventions API Versioning API Error Codes Common Data Types DescribeImagesResponseItemType DescribeKeyPairsResponseItemType EmptyElementType GroupSetType InstanceStateType IpPermissionType LaunchPermissionItemType LaunchPermissionOperationType ProductCodeItemType ProductInstanceResponseItemType ReservationInfoType RunInstanceItemType RunningInstancesItemType SecurityGroupItemType TerminateInstancesResponseInfoType UserDataType UserIdGroupPairType Amazon EC2 SOAP API List of Operations by Function AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress ConfirmProductInstance CreateKeyPair CreateSecurityGroup DeleteKeyPair DeleteSecurityGroup DeregisterImage DescribeImageAttribute DescribeImages DescribeInstances DescribeKeyPairs DescribeSecurityGroups GetConsoleOutput ModifyImageAttribute RebootInstances RegisterImage ResetImageAttribute RevokeSecurityGroupIngress RunInstances TerminateInstances Amazon EC2 Query API Common Query Parameters List of Operations by Function AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress ConfirmProductInstance CreateKeyPair CreateSecurityGroup DeleteKeyPair DeleteSecurityGroup DeregisterImage DescribeImageAttribute DescribeImages DescribeInstances DescribeKeyPairs DescribeSecurityGroups GetConsoleOutput ModifyImageAttribute RebootInstances RegisterImage ResetImageAttribute RevokeSecurityGroupIngress RunInstances TerminateInstances Command Line Tools Reference AMI Tools ec2-bundle-image ec2-bundle-vol ec2-delete-bundle ec2-download-bundle ec2-unbundle ec2-upload-bundle API Tools List of Operations by Function ec2-add-group ec2-add-keypair ec2-authorize ec2-confirm-product-instance ec2-delete-group ec2-delete-keypair ec2-deregister ec2-describe-groups ec2-describe-image-attribute ec2-describe-images ec2-describe-instances ec2-describe-keypairs ec2-fingerprint-key ec2-get-console-output ec2-modify-image-attribute ec2-reboot-instances ec2-register ec2-reset-image-attribute ec2-revoke ec2-run-instances ec2-terminate-instances Technical FAQ General Information Operation Information Instance Types and Architectures IP Information Monitoring, Errors, and Unexpected Behavior Error Messages Paid AMIs Miscellaneous Glossary Document Conventions