ec2-register

ec2-register manifest

Registers the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) specified in the manifest file and generates a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID.

OptionDescriptionRequired

manifest

Location and filename of the manifest file. The manifest file must be located in Amazon S3 and must be in the bucket/object form.

Example: mybucket/image.manifest.xml

Yes

Amazon EC2 assigns and returns an AMI ID.

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

This example registers the AMI specified in the image.manifest.xml manifest file.

$ ec2-register mybucket/image.manifest.xml
IMAGE ami-78a54011