Create AMI image of an EC2 instance store volume
For my reference, these are the steps involved to create an AMI image backup of an Instance Store EC2 volume. 1. Install AMI tools. Might need to uncomment multiverse locations in /etc/apt/sources.list. sudo apt-get install ec2-ami-tools 2. Bundle the volume sudo ec2-bundle-vol -d /tmp -k /mycerts/ec2key.pem --cert /mycerts/cert-xxxxxxxxx.pem -u AWS_ACCOUNT_NUMBER -a -e /tmp -r i386 […]