Create an EC2 AMI using your InstanceId

create-ami.sh

#!/bin/sh

# This script creates a series of prompts to create an AMI of an EC2 instance from a few AWS profiles
# Note that the YYYYmmdd- is added to the name of the AMI automatically

set -e
clear

# Check for AWS CLI tools
type aws >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "\n\n   I require the AWS CLI but it's not installed. Please visit http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ and install it. Aborting.\n"; exit 1; }

# Interview the user
echo ""
read -p "   What AWS profile does this instance belong to? (Leave blank for default): " profile
read -p "   What is the Instance ID of the server you want to AMI: " instanceid
read -p "   What is the name you want to give this AMI? (No spaces - DATE is prepended): " aminame
read -p "   Describe this AMI in plain language (Max 256 chars): " amidesc
read -p "   Is it okay to reboot the instance? (y/N): " rebootx
case $rebootx in
    [Yy]* ) rebootv="--reboot"; break;;
    [Nn]* ) rebootv="--no-reboot";;
    * ) echo "Please answer Y or N";;
esac

# Assemble a date prefix + the ami name
amidatename=`date +%Y%m%d`-$aminame

# Give feedback to the user and teach them what the manual call would look like
echo "\n   AWS Profile:      $profile"
echo "   Instance ID:      $instanceid"
echo "   AMI Name:         $amidatename"
echo "   AMI Description:  $amidesc"
echo "   Reboot:           $rebootx\n"
echo "   The API call being made to AWS is:"
echo "   aws --profile $profile ec2 create-image --instance-id $instanceid --name $amidatename --description \"$amidesc\" $rebootv"

# Make the actual call
aws --profile $profile ec2 create-image --instance-id $instanceid --name $amidatename --description "$amidesc" $rebootv

# Confirm. TODO - create a ping query to let the user know when AMI is complete.
echo "Your AMI request has been queued. Please wait for it to complete."
exit 0