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Creating an Amazon machine Image (AMI)-Awsbloginfo

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Sign in to the AWS Management Console. Move to the EC2 service. We have one running instance whose name is WebServer. Now, I want to create a consistent snapshot. In order to achieve this, stop the instance. Click on the Actions dropdown menu. Move to the  Volumes  appearing on the left side of the console. Click on the Actions dropdown menu to create a snapshot. Create a snapshot. To view the snapshot, click on the  Snapshots  appearing on the left side of the console. We can also copy the snapshot to another region. Click on the  Actions  dropdown menu, and then click on the  copy . From the above screen, we observe that we can also encrypt the snapshot, so check the encryption box to enable the encryption. Move to the US east (N.Virginia) region where we have copied the snapshot. Now, we will create an image. Click on the  Actions  dropdown menu, and then click on the  create image . Enter the name of the image and its description. Cl...