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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1999

How To "Image" An EC2 Instance For Training Purposes

I want to create some training videos where I install software on a Windows machine. There might be several scenarios that I have to cover so I want to start with an "out of the box" install of Windows for each video. Is there a way to do this with AWS EC2 without having to destroy and create a new instance each time?

The perfect situation would be where I could export an image and then reload that image when I start the instance again. Is this possible?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 51

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 270224

Amazon EC2 uses Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to create a bootable copy of a disk. An AMI can be created from an existing instance. When an AMI is used to launch a new instance, the disk will contain an exact copy of the original disk.

This does, however, involve launching a new instance.

If you want your disk to magically reset without creating a new instance, then you'll need to find a Windows utility that provides this capability (like Deep Freeze) since this takes place inside the computer and Operating System, which AWS cannot access.

Upvotes: 1

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