Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a customisation of an EC2 instance. You can add your own software, configuration, operating system, monitoring tools to an EC2 instance can create an AMI which can later be used as a template to create other instances. The AMI has faster boot / configuration time because all your software is pre-packaged.
AMIs are built for a specific region (and can be copied across regions).
You can launch EC2 instances from:
- A public AMI: AWS provided
- Your own AMI: Created and maintained by yourself
- An AWS Marketplace AMI: An AMI that made by someone else
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