Bundling Amazon EC2 instance store-backed Windows AMIs

To bundle Amazon EC2 instance store-backed AMIs

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

   Decide on the Windows instance you want to use, and prepare the instance to meet your specifications.

   For information about running an instance, see Running an Instance.

2. Right-click the instance you customized and select Bundle Instance (S3 AMI).

   The Bundle Instance dialog box opens. It shows the ID of the instance you want to bundle.

3. Provide your Amazon S3 Key Name and the Amazon S3 Bucket Name where you want the new AMI to be stored, and then click Bundle.

   You should see the Bundle Instance message box informing you that you successfully made the bundling request. The message box also provides the Bundle Task ID.

   Click View Bundling Tasks to see the status of the task. Click Close to close the message box.

   	Note
   	The Bundle Tasks status can show waiting-for-shutdown when Amazon EC2 is bundling an Amazon EC2 instance store-backed instance. Amazon EC2 shuts down the instance, bundles it, and puts the new bundle into Amazon S3.

4. Navigate to the list of your AMIs when the bundling task is complete, right-click the newly-bundled AMI, and then select Register New AMI.

   The Register Image dialog box opens. Provide the AMI Manifest Path and click Register.

To bundle Amazon EC2 instance store-backed AMIs

1. Log in to the Windows instance and modify it to meet your requirements.

   	Note
   	We highly recommend that you change the password of the AMI. If you use the Amazon EC2-provided password, write it down so you can access instances launched from this AMI. You cannot get the password of new instances using the ec2-get-password command.

2. If you want to reduce your startup time, delete any temporary files on your instance using the Disk Cleanup tool, defragment your system using Disk Defragmenter, and zero out free space using sdelete -c C:\.

   You can download the sdelete utility from the sdelete Download Page or the Microsoft Web Site .

3. Enter the following command to bundle the instance into Amazon S3 on your local system where you have installed the API tools (not on the instance you are bundling):

   PROMPT> ec2-bundle-instance <instance_id> -b <bucket_name> -p <bundle_name> -o <access_key_id> -w <secret_access_key> 

   The <instance_id> is the name of the instance, <bucket_name> is the name of the bucket in which to store the AMI, and <bundle_name> is the common name for the files to store in Amazon S3.

   	Note
   	To perform this task, you need your AWS Access Key ID (<aws-access-key-id>) and AWS Secret Access Key (<aws-secret-access-key>). For more information, see How to Get Your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

   The ec2-bundle-instance utility uploads the bundled AMI to a specified bucket. If you have used Amazon S3 before, you can use any of your existing buckets or just give ec2-bundle-instance any name that makes sense to you. If the specified bucket does not exist, the command creates it. If the specified bucket belongs to another AWS account, ec2-bundle-instance fails, and you have to specify a different name.

   The following is an example of a fully specified ec2-bundle-instance command.

   PROMPT> ec2-bundle-instance -31c2425a -b myawsbucket -p myimage -o AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE -w wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
   BUNDLE  bun-e3a4418a   i-31c2425a      myawsbucket myimage 2010-03-19T08:22:48+0000	2010-03-19T08:22:48+0000        pending

   Amazon EC2 shuts down the instance, saves it as an AMI, and restarts it.

4. Enter the following command to register the image:

   PROMPT> ec2-register <your-s3-bucket>/image.manifest.xml -n image_name
   IMAGE ami-2bb65342 

   Amazon EC2 returns an AMI identifier, the value next to the IMAGE tag (ami-2bb65342 in the example) that you can use to run instances.

To bundle Amazon EC2 instance store-backed AMIs

1. Log in to the Windows instance and modify it to meet your requirements.

2. Construct the following request to bundle the instance into Amazon S3 on your local system where you have installed the API tools (not on the instance you are bundling):

   https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
   ?Action=BundleInstance
   &InstanceId=-i-e468cd8d
   &Storage.S3.AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
   &Storage.S3.Bucket=myawsbucket 
   &Storage.S3.Prefix=winami
   &Storage.S3.UploadPolicy=eyJleHBpcmF0aW9uIjogIjIwMDgtMDgtMzBUMDg6NDk6MDlaIiwiY29uZGl0aW9ucyI6IFt7ImJ1Y2tldCI6ICJteS1idWNrZXQifSxbInN0YXJ0cy13aXRoIiwgIiRrZXkiLCAibXktbmV3LWltYWdlIl0seyJhY2wiOiAiZWMyLWJ1bmRsZS1yZWFkIn1dfEXAMPLE
   &Storage.S3.UploadPolicySignature=fh5tyyyQD8W4COEthj3nlGNtJMU%3D 
   &AuthParams

   	Note
   	To perform this task, you need your AWS Access Key ID (<aws-access-key-id>) and AWS Secret Access Key (<aws-secret-access-key>). For more information, see How to Get Your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

   For information about the BundleInstance command, see BundleInstance in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API Reference.

3. Construct the following command to register the image:

   https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
   ?Action=RegisterImage
   &ImageLocation=full-path-to-amazon-manifest
   &AuthParams

   Amazon EC2 returns an AMI identifier that you can use to run instances.