Howto create an AMI from a running instance into Ec2 cli

In order to create an ami from an EC2 running instance you will need.

• certificate file from your aws account credentials
• private key for the cerificate file from your aws account credentials(you can download this only at certificate creation)
• access by ssh to your running instance
• access key for AWS
• access secret key for AWS
• any ec2 tools - I used amitools

# create the bundle under /mnt
ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k /root/key.pem -c /root/cer.pem -u xxxxxxxxxxxx
# xxxxxxxxxxxx is your account number without dashes
ec2-upload-bundle -b YOURBUCKET -m /mnt/image.manifest.xml -a YOUR_ACCESS_KEY -s YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY
# register the ami so is available 
ec2-register -K /root/key.pem -C /root/cer.pem -n SERVER_NAME YOURBUCKET/image.manifest.xml
# this will respond with something like 
IMAGE   ami-xxxxxxxx

# At this point you can go into the aws console and boot a new instance from the ami you registered.<br />
# to deregister the ami 
ec2-deregister  ami-xxxxxxxx