Step 5 – Create an AMI compatible with AWS PCS

After you have installed the required software components, you create an AMI that you can reuse to launch instances in AWS PCS compute node groups.

To create an AMI from your temporary instance

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Instances.

3. Select the temporary instance that you created. Choose Actions, Image, Create image.

4. For Create image, do the following:

   1. For Image name, enter a descriptive name for the AMI.

   2. (Optional) For Image description, enter a brief description of the purpose of the AMI.

   3. Choose Create image.

5. In the navigation pane, choose AMIs.

6. Locate the AMI tht you created in the list. Wait for its status to change from Pending to Available, then use it with a AWS PCS compute node group.