Manage recipes
An EC2 Image Builder recipe defines the base image to use as your starting point to create a new image, along with the set of components that you add to customize your image and verify that everything works as expected. Image Builder provides automatic version choices for each component. The number of components that you can apply to a recipe is limited to 20 components overall. This includes both build and test components.
After you create a recipe, you can't modify or replace it. To update components after you create a recipe, you must create a new recipe or recipe version. You can always apply tags to your existing recipes. For more information about tagging your resources using Image Builder commands in the AWS CLI, see the Tag resources section of this guide.
Tip
You can use Amazon managed components in your recipes, or you can develop your own custom components with the AWS Task Orchestrator and Executor (AWSTOE) application. To get started, see Get started with AWSTOE.
This section covers how to list, view, and create recipes.
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Clean up resources
To avoid unexpected charges, make sure to clean up resources and pipelines that you created from the examples in this guide. For more information about deleting resources in Image Builder, see Delete EC2 Image Builder resources.
