Cloning a EC2 Ubuntu instance

Question

I have an EC2 Ubuntu 14.04 instance with software, packages installed. I would like to clone or image this to spin up new instances so that it has all the software and packages installed rather than me doing them all over. It seems like the the AMI can create only linux images and not Ubuntu using the AWS console. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks, Kunal

Answer 1

A picture is worth a 1000 words. Have you tried this on your console?

When you launch a new instance, it will show up in "My AMIs" section, and it will have the same software and configurations of your EC2 instance.

Answer 2

AWS lets you create AMI for all the Operating Systems it offers. It is not limited to one thing.

You can just create an AMI of your Ubuntu Instance and launch a new instance from it.

Just to clear your 2nd confusion, Ubuntu is also a LINUX OS.