Ahh that makes more sense. I'll have a play around creating one now.

Thanks Rickard

On 24 November 2016 at 11:10, Rickard von Essen <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I thought it seemed odd that the AMI would be stored on S3, rather than
>> under the "AMIs" section of the dashboard like the EBS instances, and
>> wondered why that is.
>
>
> The should also be listed under AMIs, but the bundle is in S3. This is
> similar to EBS backed AMIs which have there underlying snapshot listed in
> EBS Snapshots.
>
> On 24 November 2016 at 11:46, Matt Black <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rickard, thanks for that.
>>
>> I'm totally across what EBS is and does - I've just never used
>> instance-store backed EC2 instances. I thought it seemed odd that the AMI
>> would be stored on S3, rather than under the "AMIs" section of the
>> dashboard like the EBS instances, and wondered why that is.
>>
>> On 24 November 2016 at 10:31, Rickard von Essen <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Instance store don't use EBS at all. An EBS AMI references a EBS
>>> snapshot which is used to boot the instance. AMI's for instance store
>>> backed instances does instead store a image of the root disk in S3 (a
>>> bundle), this image is encrypted with your key for security reasons.
>>>
>>> See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creat
>>> ing-an-ami-instance-store.html
>>>
>>> On 24 November 2016 at 10:41, Matt Black <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey folks,
>>>>
>>>> I haven't used the instance-store builder before - or indeed any
>>>> instance-store backed EC2.
>>>>
>>>> Could someone enlighten me as to why we need an S3 bucket and x509
>>>> certs for this builder? Why not just store the AMI on EC2 like with
>>>> EBS-backed images?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Matt
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