I would like to download a Amazon EC2 AMI
Can i know the procedure for downloading a AMI from Amazon EC2 account.
How do I do this?
I think this is what you are looking for
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/
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I have github actions self hosted runner in ECS which needs to access a file from a folder in an EC2 instance. Both are in the same AWS VPC.
How can i do this. I am unable to figure out the connection from ECS to EC2.
Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Am wondering how to safely migrate Google Cloud VM to AWS EC2 Instance.
Config is:
Linux Ubuntu VM.
I am trying to setup a clustering structure on Amazon EC2 with Wildfly 8.2 . I have tried a lot of things but nothing worked. As learnt Amazon EC2 does not support multicast and this is why I couldn't make it work.
How can I accomplish to setup this structure on Amazon EC2.
Thanks for help.
The developer tools page here list two set of tools for Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 API tools
Amazon EC2 AMI tools
What are the differences between the two set of tools?
The API tools serve as the client interface to the Amazon EC2 web service. Use these tools to register and launch instances, manipulate security groups, and more
The Amazon EC2 AMI Tools are command-line utilities to help bundle an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), create an AMI from an existing machine or installed volume, and upload a bundled AMI to Amazon S3.
From the definitions shown at Developer Tools.
So, if you want to manage instances, use API tools; if you want to build and upload an AMI (Amazon Machine Image), use AMI tools.
Here are the lines from Amazon Documentation:
The Amazon EC2 command line interface tools (also called the CLI tools) wrap the Amazon EC2 API actions. These tools are written in Java and include shell scripts for both Windows and Linux/UNIX/Mac OSX.
Note
Alternatively, you can use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), which provides commands for a broad set of AWS products, including Amazon EC2. To get started with the AWS CLI, see the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide. For more information about the AWS CLI commands for Amazon EC2, see ec2 in the AWS Command Line Interface Reference.
Before you can use the Amazon EC2 CLI tools, you need to download them and configure them to use your AWS account. You can set up the tools on your own computer or on an Amazon EC2 instance.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/set-up-ec2-cli-windows.html
Is there any way of getting the saved EC2 instance image and running it on virtualbox on my personal computer?
The official way is only if it was originally imported into EC2
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ExportingEC2Instances.html
If you have previously imported an instance into Amazon EC2, you can
use the command line tools to export that instance to Citrix Xen,
Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware vSphere. Exporting an instance can be
useful when you want to deploy a copy of your EC2 instance in your
on-site virtualization environment.
You cannot export an instance unless it was previously imported into AWS
it looks like you can directly import/export ec2 and virtualbox/vmware images.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport/
The amazon tool is very restrictive. But you can dump your EBS, download it and make a VDI image out of it. I have done it with two of my EC2 instances and described the steps on my blog.
http://diogomelo.net/blog/16/export-amazon-ec2-instance-to-virtualbox