register-image¶

Description¶

Registers an AMI. When you’re creating an AMI, this is the final step you must complete before you can launch an instance from the AMI. For more information about creating AMIs, see Creating your own AMIs in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

Note

For Amazon EBS-backed instances, CreateImage creates and registers the AMI in a single request, so you don’t have to register the AMI yourself.

You can also use RegisterImage to create an Amazon EBS-backed Linux AMI from a snapshot of a root device volume. You specify the snapshot using the block device mapping. For more information, see Launching a Linux instance from a backup in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

If any snapshots have AWS Marketplace product codes, they are copied to the new AMI.

Windows and some Linux distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), use the EC2 billing product code associated with an AMI to verify the subscription status for package updates. To create a new AMI for operating systems that require a billing product code, instead of registering the AMI, do the following to preserve the billing product code association:

Launch an instance from an existing AMI with that billing product code.
Customize the instance.
Create an AMI from the instance using CreateImage .

If you purchase a Reserved Instance to apply to an On-Demand Instance that was launched from an AMI with a billing product code, make sure that the Reserved Instance has the matching billing product code. If you purchase a Reserved Instance without the matching billing product code, the Reserved Instance will not be applied to the On-Demand Instance. For information about how to obtain the platform details and billing information of an AMI, see Obtaining billing information in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

If needed, you can deregister an AMI at any time. Any modifications you make to an AMI backed by an instance store volume invalidates its registration. If you make changes to an image, deregister the previous image and register the new image.

Synopsis¶

  register-image
[--image-location <value>]
[--architecture <value>]
[--block-device-mappings <value>]
[--description <value>]
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
[--ena-support | --no-ena-support]
[--kernel-id <value>]
--name <value>
[--billing-products <value>]
[--ramdisk-id <value>]
[--root-device-name <value>]
[--sriov-net-support <value>]
[--virtualization-type <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options¶

--image-location (string)

The full path to your AMI manifest in Amazon S3 storage. The specified bucket must have the aws-exec-read canned access control list (ACL) to ensure that it can be accessed by Amazon EC2. For more information, see Canned ACLs in the Amazon S3 Service Developer Guide .

--architecture (string)

The architecture of the AMI.

Default: For Amazon EBS-backed AMIs, i386 . For instance store-backed AMIs, the architecture specified in the manifest file.

Possible values:

i386

x86_64

arm64

--block-device-mappings (list)

The block device mapping entries.

(structure)

Describes a block device mapping.

DeviceName -> (string)

The device name (for example, /dev/sdh or xvdh ).

VirtualName -> (string)

The virtual device name (ephemeral N). Instance store volumes are numbered starting from 0. An instance type with 2 available instance store volumes can specify mappings for ephemeral0 and ephemeral1 . The number of available instance store volumes depends on the instance type. After you connect to the instance, you must mount the volume.

NVMe instance store volumes are automatically enumerated and assigned a device name. Including them in your block device mapping has no effect.

Constraints: For M3 instances, you must specify instance store volumes in the block device mapping for the instance. When you launch an M3 instance, we ignore any instance store volumes specified in the block device mapping for the AMI.

Ebs -> (structure)

Parameters used to automatically set up EBS volumes when the instance is launched.

DeleteOnTermination -> (boolean)

Indicates whether the EBS volume is deleted on instance termination. For more information, see Preserving Amazon EBS volumes on instance termination in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Iops -> (integer)

The number of I/O operations per second (IOPS) that the volume supports. For io1 volumes, this represents the number of IOPS that are provisioned for the volume. For gp2 volumes, this represents the baseline performance of the volume and the rate at which the volume accumulates I/O credits for bursting. For more information, see Amazon EBS volume types in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

Constraints: Range is 100-16,000 IOPS for gp2 volumes and 100 to 64,000IOPS for io1 volumes in most Regions. Maximum io1 IOPS of 64,000 is guaranteed only on Nitro-based instances . Other instance families guarantee performance up to 32,000 IOPS. For more information, see Amazon EBS Volume Types in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

Condition: This parameter is required for requests to create io1 volumes; it is not used in requests to create gp2 , st1 , sc1 , or standard volumes.

SnapshotId -> (string)

The ID of the snapshot.

VolumeSize -> (integer)

The size of the volume, in GiB.

Default: If you’re creating the volume from a snapshot and don’t specify a volume size, the default is the snapshot size.

Constraints: 1-16384 for General Purpose SSD (gp2 ), 4-16384 for Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 ), 500-16384 for Throughput Optimized HDD (st1 ), 500-16384 for Cold HDD (sc1 ), and 1-1024 for Magnetic (standard ) volumes. If you specify a snapshot, the volume size must be equal to or larger than the snapshot size.

VolumeType -> (string)

The volume type. If you set the type to io1 , you must also specify the Iops parameter. If you set the type to gp2 , st1 , sc1 , or standard , you must omit the Iops parameter.

Default: gp2

KmsKeyId -> (string)

Identifier (key ID, key alias, ID ARN, or alias ARN) for a customer managed CMK under which the EBS volume is encrypted.

This parameter is only supported on BlockDeviceMapping objects called by RunInstances , RequestSpotFleet , and RequestSpotInstances .

Encrypted -> (boolean)

Indicates whether the encryption state of an EBS volume is changed while being restored from a backing snapshot. The effect of setting the encryption state to true depends on the volume origin (new or from a snapshot), starting encryption state, ownership, and whether encryption by default is enabled. For more information, see Amazon EBS Encryption in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

In no case can you remove encryption from an encrypted volume.

Encrypted volumes can only be attached to instances that support Amazon EBS encryption. For more information, see Supported instance types .

This parameter is not returned by .

NoDevice -> (string)

Suppresses the specified device included in the block device mapping of the AMI.

Shorthand Syntax:

DeviceName=string,VirtualName=string,Ebs={DeleteOnTermination=boolean,Iops=integer,SnapshotId=string,VolumeSize=integer,VolumeType=string,KmsKeyId=string,Encrypted=boolean},NoDevice=string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "DeviceName": "string",
    "VirtualName": "string",
    "Ebs": {
      "DeleteOnTermination": true|false,
      "Iops": integer,
      "SnapshotId": "string",
      "VolumeSize": integer,
      "VolumeType": "standard"|"io1"|"gp2"|"sc1"|"st1",
      "KmsKeyId": "string",
      "Encrypted": true|false
    },
    "NoDevice": "string"
  }
  ...
]

--description (string)

A description for your AMI.

--dry-run | --no-dry-run (boolean)

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .

--ena-support | --no-ena-support (boolean)

Set to true to enable enhanced networking with ENA for the AMI and any instances that you launch from the AMI.

This option is supported only for HVM AMIs. Specifying this option with a PV AMI can make instances launched from the AMI unreachable.

--kernel-id (string)

The ID of the kernel.

--name (string)

A name for your AMI.

Constraints: 3-128 alphanumeric characters, parentheses (()), square brackets ([]), spaces ( ), periods (.), slashes (/), dashes (-), single quotes (‘), at-signs (@), or underscores(_)

--billing-products (list)

The billing product codes. Your account must be authorized to specify billing product codes. Otherwise, you can use the AWS Marketplace to bill for the use of an AMI.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--ramdisk-id (string)

The ID of the RAM disk.

--root-device-name (string)

The device name of the root device volume (for example, /dev/sda1 ).

--sriov-net-support (string)

Set to simple to enable enhanced networking with the Intel 82599 Virtual Function interface for the AMI and any instances that you launch from the AMI.

There is no way to disable sriovNetSupport at this time.

This option is supported only for HVM AMIs. Specifying this option with a PV AMI can make instances launched from the AMI unreachable.

--virtualization-type (string)

The type of virtualization (hvm | paravirtual ).

Default: paravirtual

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

To register an AMI using a manifest file

This example registers an AMI using the specified manifest file in Amazon S3.

Command:

aws ec2 register-image --image-location my-s3-bucket/myimage/image.manifest.xml --name "MyImage"

Output:

{
    "ImageId": "ami-61341708"
}

To add a block device mapping

Add the following parameter to your register-image command to add an Amazon EBS volume with the device name /dev/sdh and a volume size of 100:

--block-device-mappings "[{\"DeviceName\": \"/dev/sdh\",\"Ebs\":{\"VolumeSize\":100}}]"

Add the following parameter to your register-image command to add ephemeral1 as an instance store volume with the device name /dev/sdc:

--block-device-mappings "[{\"DeviceName\": \"/dev/sdc\",\"VirtualName\":\"ephemeral1\"}]"

Add the following parameter to your register-image command to omit a device (for example, /dev/sdf):

--block-device-mappings "[{\"DeviceName\": \"/dev/sdf\",\"NoDevice\":\"\"}]"

Output¶

ImageId -> (string)

The ID of the newly registered AMI.

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