Amazon Machine Image - AshokBhat/notes GitHub Wiki

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An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a template used to create virtual machine instances in Amazon EC2. It contains the operating system and software configuration needed to launch an instance.

Contents

An AMI typically defines:

• Root volume containing the operating system and software
• Block device mappings for attached storage
• Launch permissions controlling which AWS accounts can use it
• Architecture such as x86_64 or arm64

AMIs are commonly backed by Amazon EBS snapshots.

Operating systems

AMIs are available for operating systems including:

• Amazon Linux 2023]]
• RHEL
• Ubuntu
• SLES
• Windows Server
• Other supported Linux distributions

Types

• Public — available to AWS users
• Private — available only to the owning account
• Shared — shared with specific AWS accounts or organizations
• AWS Marketplace — commercial or third-party images available through AWS Marketplace

See also

• [Amazon EC2]] ](/AshokBhat/notes/wiki/[[Amazon-EBS)
• Amazon Linux
• [AWS Graviton]] ](/AshokBhat/notes/wiki/[[AWS)