Building AMIs for easier deployment

If your region doesn't yet have a Sahana AMI in, then it is easy to create one which allows easier deployment of future instances for both you & others. The only cost to you is a small amount of time to publish it & then using up your 1Gb Snapshot allowance within the free tier.

• Install the instance as-above
• Don't run the configure script
• Shutdown the EBS instance.

  shutdown -h now
  
  

• Go to your aws console for the current region at ​| EC2 Console

• Select the debian instance you just prepared in the "Instances"

• Select " Create Image (EBS AMI) " in the "Instance Actions" drop down.

• Choose an Image name - Lets say - "Sahana Eden" and fill in a description.

• Click "Create this Image"

• Go to the "AMIS" menu and select "Owned by me" and "All Platforms" in the Viewing dropdown.

• Wait for about 5 minutes and hit refresh for the AMI you just built to appear.

• Select the AMI and click the Permissions button - Select public, to make the image public.

Keep Templates as EBS Volumes as this is cheaper than Snapshots