Creating Amazon Machine Image

Once you upload the OVA files to Amazon S3 bucket, you need to use the AWS command line interface (CLI) to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the OVA files that you have uploaded. This AMI can be later used to launch the instances for deploying Resiliency Manager, Infrastructure Manager (IMS), and Replication Gateway in AWS.

To create Amazon Machine Image

Go to the Command prompt and then go to AWS CLI.
Refer to the AWS documentation for instructions on how to enter your AWS credentials and region and create a json file in the following format:
```
[
         { 
           "Description":"my description",
           "Format": "ova",
           "UserBucket":{
             "S3Bucket":"my-bucket",
             "S3Key": "my-ova-key"
												}
							}]
     
```
Where, my-bucket is the name of your bucket and my-ova-key is the alias name that you provided for the OVA file.
Run the following command to create an AMI:
```
		aws ec2 import-image --description "my description"
 --disk-containers file://Mycontainers.json_with_path
```
Where, Mycontainers.json_with_path is the path and name of the json file that you have created.
The above command displays a number of parameters and their values. Note down the value of ImportTaskId parameter.
Run the following command to verify that the import task is complete and the AMI is ready to be used:
```
aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks 
--import-task-ids MyImportTaskID
```
Where, MyImportTaskID is the task ID that you receive from the command described in the prior step.

See Deploying the virtual appliances in AWS through AWS Marketplace.

Creating Amazon Machine Image

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