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The Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

The Amazon Machine Image (AMI) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Essential Training for Architects (2019)

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The Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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- [Narrator] Amazon Machine Image, or often shortened to AMI, or sometimes pronounced "ah-me" is a packaged environment containing a software stack, along with all of the necessary parts to properly set up an boot up an EC2 instance. AMIs are the unit of deployment for instances on AWS. AMIs are specified when launching an instance, and one or more instances can be launched from an AMI as needed. An AMI typically includes the following, a template for the root volume for the instance. For example, an operating system, an application server and supporting application libraries, launch permissions that control which AWS accounts can use the AMI to launch instances. A block device mapping that specifies the elastic block storage volumes to attach to the instance when it's launched. When creating a new EC2 instance, an AMI is specified that is responsible for setting up and booting up your instance. And once an instance is…

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