Create Images

Overview

The Create Images action allows you to create AMIs of targeted EC2 instances.

Read more about AMIs

Permissions

The action uses the following AWS EC2 API endpoints to target and create AMIs:

• CreateImage
• CreateTags
• DescribeImages
• DescribeInstances

Configuring the action

Targeting

Tag groups are used to target EC2 instances for AMI creation.

Prevent Reboot

You can choose to prevent the EC2 instance from rebooting during the AMI creation process.

Tagging

You can choose to copy the tags from the source EC2 instance and/or source Volume(s) to the AMI, and you can add additional tags.

Selecting "Tag snapshots created for Image" will tag the snapshots with the same tags.

When adding additional tags, you can use the following parameters which will be substituted at runtime:
GS::RuleName will be replaced by the rule’s name
GS::UTCDate will be replaced by the current date
GS::UTCDatePlusXDays will be replaced by the current date + X days
AWS::DeviceName will be replaced by the device name (e.g. /dev/sda1)
AWS::InstanceId will be replaced by the Instance ID
AWS::VolumeId will be replaced by the Volume ID