DistAMI

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Distributes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) by making it public in multiple regions

Usage

usage: distami [-h] [--region REGION] [--to REGIONS] [-p] [--verbose] AMI_ID

Distributes an AMI by making it public.

positional arguments:
  AMI_ID           the source AMI ID to distribute. E.g. ami-1234abcd

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --region REGION  the region the AMI is in (default is current region of EC2
                   instance this is running on). E.g. us-east-1
  --to REGIONS     comma-separated list of regions to copy the AMI to. The
                   default is all regions. E.g. us-east-1,us-west-1,us-west-2
  -p, --parallel   Perform each copy to another region in parallel. The
                   default is in serial which can take a long time
  --verbose, -v    enable verbose output (-vvv for more)

Examples

Copy an AMI to all regions in parallel from an EC2 instance such as Aminator:

distami -p ami-abcd1234

Copy AMI in us-east-1 to us-west-1

distribute --region us-east-1 ami-abcd1234 --to us-west-1

Installation

You can install DistAMI using the usual PyPI channels. Example:

sudo pip install distami

You can find the package details here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distami

Source Code

The Python source code for DistAMI is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/Answers4AWS/distami

LICENSE

Copyright 2013 Answers for AWS LLC

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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