ec2-register

ec2-register MANIFEST

Registers the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) described by the named MANIFEST file, generating a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID. MANIFEST must specify a location of a manifest file in Amazon S3 and must be of the form bucket/object.

The image ID that was assigned by Amazon EC2 is displayed.

Errors are displayed on stderr.

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