Subscribe to macOS AMI notifications - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Subscribe to macOS AMI notifications

To be notified when new AMIs are released or when bridgeOS has been updated, subscribe for notifications using Amazon SNS.

For more information about EC2 macOS AMIs, see Amazon EC2 macOS AMIs release notes.

To subscribe to macOS AMI notifications

  1. Open the Amazon SNS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/sns/v3/home.

  2. In the navigation bar, change the Region to US East (N. Virginia), if necessary. You must use this Region because the SNS notifications that you are subscribing to were created in this Region.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Subscriptions.

  4. Choose Create subscription.

  5. For the Create subscription dialog box, do the following:

    1. For Topic ARN, copy and paste one of the following Amazon Resource Names (ARNs):

      • arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:898855652048:amazon-ec2-macos-ami-updates

      • arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:898855652048:amazon-ec2-bridgeos-updates

    2. For Protocol, choose one of the following:

      • Email:

        For Endpoint, type an email address that you can use to receive the notifications. After you create your subscription you'll receive a confirmation message with the subject line AWS Notification - Subscription Confirmation. Open the email and choose Confirm subscription to complete your subscription

      • SMS:

        For Endpoint, type a phone number that you can use to receive the notifications.

      • AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon Data Firehose (Notifications come in JSON format):

        For Endpoint, enter the ARN for the Lambda function, SQS queue, or Firehose stream you can use to receive the notifications.

    3. Choose Create subscription.

Whenever macOS AMIs are released, we send notifications to the subscribers of the amazon-ec2-macos-ami-updates topic. Whenever bridgeOS is updated, we send notifications to the subscribers of the amazon-ec2-bridgeos-updates topic. If you no longer want to receive these notifications, use the following procedure to unsubscribe.

To unsubscribe from macOS AMI notifications

  1. Open the Amazon SNS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/sns/v3/home.

  2. In the navigation bar, change the Region to US East (N. Virginia), if necessary. You must use this Region because the SNS notifications were created in this Region.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Subscriptions.

  4. Select the subscriptions and then choose Actions, Delete subscriptions When prompted for confirmation, choose Delete.