POST /#Action=RegisterImage

Registers an AMI. When you're creating an AMI, this is the final step you must complete before you can launch an instance from the AMI. For more information about creating AMIs, see Create your own AMI in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

For Amazon EBS-backed instances, CreateImage creates and registers the AMI in a single request, so you don't have to register the AMI yourself. We recommend that you always use CreateImage unless you have a specific reason to use RegisterImage.

If needed, you can deregister an AMI at any time. Any modifications you make to an AMI backed by an instance store volume invalidates its registration. If you make changes to an image, deregister the previous image and register the new image.

Register a snapshot of a root device volume

You can use RegisterImage to create an Amazon EBS-backed Linux AMI from a snapshot of a root device volume. You specify the snapshot using a block device mapping. You can't set the encryption state of the volume using the block device mapping. If the snapshot is encrypted, or encryption by default is enabled, the root volume of an instance launched from the AMI is encrypted.

For more information, see Create a Linux AMI from a snapshot and Use encryption with Amazon EBS-backed AMIs in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Amazon Web Services Marketplace product codes

If any snapshots have Amazon Web Services Marketplace product codes, they are copied to the new AMI.

Windows and some Linux distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), use the Amazon EC2 billing product code associated with an AMI to verify the subscription status for package updates. To create a new AMI for operating systems that require a billing product code, instead of registering the AMI, do the following to preserve the billing product code association:

Launch an instance from an existing AMI with that billing product code.
Customize the instance.
Create an AMI from the instance using CreateImage.

If you purchase a Reserved Instance to apply to an On-Demand Instance that was launched from an AMI with a billing product code, make sure that the Reserved Instance has the matching billing product code. If you purchase a Reserved Instance without the matching billing product code, the Reserved Instance will not be applied to the On-Demand Instance. For information about how to obtain the platform details and billing information of an AMI, see Understand AMI billing information in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Servers

https://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com
https://ec2.amazonaws.com
https://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn

Request headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`X-Amz-Content-Sha256`	String	No
`X-Amz-Credential`	String	No
`Content-Type`	String	Yes	The media type of the request body. Default value: "text/xml"
`X-Amz-Date`	String	No
`X-Amz-Algorithm`	String	No
`X-Amz-SignedHeaders`	String	No
`X-Amz-Security-Token`	String	No
`X-Amz-Signature`	String	No

Query parameters

Name Type Required Description

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Version`	String	Yes	Valid values: `"2016-11-15"`
`Action`	String	Yes	Valid values: `"RegisterImage"`

Version

String

Yes

Valid values:

"2016-11-15"

Action

String

Yes

Valid values:

"RegisterImage"

Request body fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Name`	String	Yes	A name for your AMI. Constraints: 3-128 alphanumeric characters, parentheses (()), square brackets ([]), spaces ( ), periods (.), slashes (/), dashes (-), single quotes ('), at-signs (@), or underscores(_)
`TpmSupport`	String	No	Set to `v2.0` to enable Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support. For more information, see NitroTPM in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. Valid values: `"v2.0"`
`RamdiskId`	String	No	The ID of the RAM disk.
`Description`	String	No	A description for your AMI.
`SriovNetSupport`	String	No	Set to `simple` to enable enhanced networking with the Intel 82599 Virtual Function interface for the AMI and any instances that you launch from the AMI. There is no way to disable `sriovNetSupport` at this time. This option is supported only for HVM AMIs. Specifying this option with a PV AMI can make instances launched from the AMI unreachable.
`BillingProducts[]`	Array	No	The billing product codes. Your account must be authorized to specify billing product codes. If your account is not authorized to specify billing product codes, you can publish AMIs that include billable software and list them on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. You must first register as a seller on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. For more information, see Getting started as a seller and AMI-based products in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Guide.
`RootDeviceName`	String	No	The device name of the root device volume (for example, `/dev/sda1`).
`BootMode`	String	No	The boot mode of the AMI. A value of `uefi-preferred` indicates that the AMI supports both UEFI and Legacy BIOS. The operating system contained in the AMI must be configured to support the specified boot mode. For more information, see Boot modes in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. Valid values: `"legacy-bios"` `"uefi-preferred"` `"uefi"`
`ImdsSupport`	String	No	Set to `v2.0` to indicate that IMDSv2 is specified in the AMI. Instances launched from this AMI will have `HttpTokens` automatically set to `required` so that, by default, the instance requires that IMDSv2 is used when requesting instance metadata. In addition, `HttpPutResponseHopLimit` is set to `2`. For more information, see Configure the AMI in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. If you set the value to `v2.0`, make sure that your AMI software can support IMDSv2. Valid values: `"v2.0"`
`ImageLocation`	String	No	The full path to your AMI manifest in Amazon S3 storage. The specified bucket must have the `aws-exec-read` canned access control list (ACL) to ensure that it can be accessed by Amazon EC2. For more information, see Canned ACLs in the Amazon S3 Service Developer Guide.
`EnaSupport`	Boolean	No	Set to `true` to enable enhanced networking with ENA for the AMI and any instances that you launch from the AMI. This option is supported only for HVM AMIs. Specifying this option with a PV AMI can make instances launched from the AMI unreachable.
`BlockDeviceMappings[]`	Array	No	The block device mapping entries. If you specify an Amazon EBS volume using the ID of an Amazon EBS snapshot, you can't specify the encryption state of the volume. If you create an AMI on an Outpost, then all backing snapshots must be on the same Outpost or in the Region of that Outpost. AMIs on an Outpost that include local snapshots can be used to launch instances on the same Outpost only. For more information, Amazon EBS local snapshots on Outposts in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
`DryRun`	Boolean	No	Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is `DryRunOperation`. Otherwise, it is `UnauthorizedOperation`.
`VirtualizationType`	String	No	The type of virtualization (`hvm` \| `paravirtual`). Default: `paravirtual`
`UefiData`	String	No	Base64 representation of the non-volatile UEFI variable store. To retrieve the UEFI data, use the GetInstanceUefiData command. You can inspect and modify the UEFI data by using the python-uefivars tool on GitHub. For more information, see UEFI Secure Boot in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
`KernelId`	String	No	The ID of the kernel.
`Architecture`	String	No	The architecture of the AMI. Default: For Amazon EBS-backed AMIs, `i386`. For instance store-backed AMIs, the architecture specified in the manifest file. Valid values: `"x86_64"` `"arm64"` `"i386"` `"x86_64_mac"` `"arm64_mac"`

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