Create an OS Image

Create an image of the virtual machine configured per your site's requirements.

You must have already create a virtual machine, installed Accelerator on the VM and configured the VM per your site's environment.

AWS documentation can be found at Create an AMI from an Amazon EC2 Instance.

  1. Login in the AWS console.
  2. Click the AWS logo located in the left-hand corner of the web page.
  3. Using the search box located under AWS services, enter EC2.
  4. Click the EC2 search result.
    The EC2 dashboard is opened.
  5. Click Instances from the menu located on the left-hand side of the web page.
  6. Select the virtual machine created for cloud deployment by enabling the check box next to its name.
  7. At the top, click Actions > Instance State > Stop.
  8. Click Yes, Stop.
    It may take some time for the virtual machine to be stopped.
    Important: Do not proceed until the Instance State is "stopped".
  9. Click Actions > Image > Create Image.
  10. For Image name, enter a name for the image.
    The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., scaling_image.
    Important: On Windows platforms, the name of the image should contain the string "windows" (case insensitive). For example, Windows_Server-2012-R2_RTM-English-64Bit-Base-2019.11.13.
  11. Click Create Image.
  12. Click the View pending image ami-xxxxxxxxxx link.
    The image is complete when its Status is "available".
You can now delete the virtual machine so that you are no longer charged for it.