GET

/#Action=RegisterImage

http://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com/#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 <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-an-ami.html">Create your own AMI</a> in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide. <note> For Amazon EBS-backed instances, <a>CreateImage</a> 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 <a>CreateImage</a> unless you have a specific reason to use RegisterImage. </note> 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 <code>RegisterImage</code> 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 <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-an-ami-ebs.html#creating-launching-ami-from-snapshot">Create a Linux AMI from a snapshot</a> and <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIEncryption.html">Use encryption with Amazon EBS-backed AMIs</a> 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: <ol> <li> Launch an instance from an existing AMI with that billing product code. </li> <li> Customize the instance. </li> <li> Create an AMI from the instance using <a>CreateImage</a>. </li> </ol> 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 <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ami-billing-info.html">Understand AMI billing information</a> in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Access Token Required: API Key

Query Params

ImageLocationstring

The full path to your AMI manifest in Amazon S3 storage. The specified bucket must have the <code>aws-exec-read</code> canned access control list (ACL) to ensure that it can be accessed by Amazon EC2. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl">Canned ACLs</a> in the Amazon S3 Service Developer Guide.

Architecturestring

The architecture of the AMI. Default: For Amazon EBS-backed AMIs, <code>i386</code>. For instance store-backed AMIs, the architecture specified in the manifest file.

Allowed:

BlockDeviceMappingarray

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, <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/snapshots-outposts.html#ami">Amazon EBS local snapshots on Outposts</a> in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Descriptionstring

A description for your AMI.

DryRunboolean

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 <code>DryRunOperation</code>. Otherwise, it is <code>UnauthorizedOperation</code>.

EnaSupportboolean

Set to <code>true</code> 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.

KernelIdstring

The ID of the kernel.

Namestringrequired

A name for your AMI. Constraints: 3-128 alphanumeric characters, parentheses (()), square brackets ([]), spaces ( ), periods (.), slashes (/), dashes (-), single quotes ('), at-signs (@), or underscores(_)

BillingProductarray

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 <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/user-guide-for-sellers.html">Getting started as a seller</a> and <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/ami-products.html">AMI-based products</a> in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Guide.

RamdiskIdstring

The ID of the RAM disk.

RootDeviceNamestring

The device name of the root device volume (for example, <code>/dev/sda1</code>).

SriovNetSupportstring

Set to <code>simple</code> 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 <code>sriovNetSupport</code> 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.

VirtualizationTypestring

The type of virtualization (<code>hvm</code> | <code>paravirtual</code>). Default: <code>paravirtual</code>

BootModestring

The boot mode of the AMI. A value of <code>uefi-preferred</code> indicates that the AMI supports both UEFI and Legacy BIOS. <note> The operating system contained in the AMI must be configured to support the specified boot mode. </note> For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ami-boot.html">Boot modes</a> in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

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TpmSupportstring

Set to <code>v2.0</code> to enable Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/nitrotpm.html">NitroTPM</a> in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Allowed:

UefiDatastring

Base64 representation of the non-volatile UEFI variable store. To retrieve the UEFI data, use the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_GetInstanceUefiData">GetInstanceUefiData</a> command. You can inspect and modify the UEFI data by using the <a href="https://github.com/awslabs/python-uefivars">python-uefivars tool</a> on GitHub. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/uefi-secure-boot.html">UEFI Secure Boot</a> in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

ImdsSupportstring

Set to <code>v2.0</code> to indicate that IMDSv2 is specified in the AMI. Instances launched from this AMI will have <code>HttpTokens</code> automatically set to <code>required</code> so that, by default, the instance requires that IMDSv2 is used when requesting instance metadata. In addition, <code>HttpPutResponseHopLimit</code> is set to <code>2</code>. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-IMDS-new-instances.html#configure-IMDS-new-instances-ami-configuration">Configure the AMI</a> in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. <note> If you set the value to <code>v2.0</code>, make sure that your AMI software can support IMDSv2. </note>

Allowed:

Actionstringrequired

Allowed:

Versionstringrequired

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Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

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API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

1curl --request GET \
2     --url 'http://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=RegisterImage' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}