Comments on: Saving a Customised Linux Amazon Instance (EC2 and S3)

By: Greg Akins

Greg Akins — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:47:44 +0000

I'm surprised no one else mentioned the missing ec2-api-tools installation. After doing everything step-by-step, when I tried to register the image, the ec2-register command wasn't found. I learned though the Amazon Forums, that ec2-register is in ec2-api-tools, rather than ec2-ami-tools.

Perhaps that has changed since the tutorial was written, because it seems like such an obvious oversight.

Regardless, the steps were otherwise spot on, and very easy to follow.

By: Kai-Christian

Kai-Christian — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:13:09 +0000

Nice Post. Helped me a lot and was one of my first steps with aws. Thanks

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:27:58 +0000

Just what I needed. Thanks for writing this.

By: asdas

asdas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:29:51 +0000

Very useful & nicely explained. Thanks a lot!

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:50:21 +0000

This is an extremely useful post, really cleared up the whole AMI issue.

By: Elky Mart

Elky Mart — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:11:41 +0000

Thanks for posting this.

I had to add the dashes back to the account number to get this to work. Also, if you have any mounted drives, make sure you exclude them or there will not be enough room for the image

By: lupinehorror

lupinehorror — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:44:56 +0000

this a nice tutorial…thanks for posting it :)

By: anoop l

anoop l — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:50:35 +0000

Seems Good! Explained in very detail a nice blog I have seen on EC2.

I was searching for something like this. I will try this and get back to you.

But would you share the risks? since we have production servers. Any way I will try this with a new test server instance still please share the underlying risks you see or faced.