Is it possible to convert .img to ami for use with amazon EC2

Question

Is there anyway I can launch an instance in amazon using my laptop's image?

Answer 1

Did you check AWS documentation ? Here is what it says:

1. Export your your VM from its virtualization environment,
2. Import/upload the VM file to S3 bucket. Which will be seen here as a file on S3 bucket.

3. Import Your VM as an Image:

   a- VM Import Service Role

   VM Import requires a role to perform certain operations, such as downloading disk images from an Amazon S3 bucket. You must create a role with the name vmimport with the following policy and trusted entities.

   To create the service role:

   • Create a file named trust-policy.json with the following policy:

   { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "Service": "vmie.amazonaws.com" }, "Action": "sts:AssumeRole", "Condition": { "StringEquals":{ "sts:ExternalId": "vmimport" } } } ] }

   • Use the create-role command to create a role named vmimport and give VM Import/Export access to it.

   aws iam create-role --role-name vmimport --assume-role-policy-document file://trust-policy.json

   • Create a file named role-policy.json with the following policy, where disk-image-file-bucket is the bucket where the disk images are stored:

   { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "s3:ListBucket", "s3:GetBucketLocation" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::disk-image-file-bucket" ] }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "s3:GetObject" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::disk-image-file-bucket/*" ] }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Action":[ "ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute", "ec2:CopySnapshot", "ec2:RegisterImage", "ec2:Describe*" ], "Resource": "*" } ] }

   • Use the following put-role-policy command to attach the policy to the role created above:

   aws iam put-role-policy --role-name vmimport --policy-name vmimport --policy-document file://role-policy.json

4. Import your VM to EC as an image:

   aws ec2 import-image --description "Windows 2008 OVA" --disk-containers file://containers.json

   Where containers.json file is:

   [ { "Description": "Windows 2008 OVA", "Format": "ova", "UserBucket": { "S3Bucket": "my-import-bucket", "S3Key": "vms/my-windows-2008-vm.ova" } }]

5. Now you have finished all these steps, you have an AMI ready to be used to launch your instance.

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