If you have ever wanted to grab a marketplace AMI (ex: OpenVPN) you'll know that the process is painful. This solves the pain.

README.md

Usage

• You will need to first make sure you have subscribed to the marketplace product
• Get the AMI of the marketplace
• Copy the script to machine
• awsume (or otherwise authorize) to AWS
• chmod the script to be executable if needed chmod +x marketplace-ami-encryptor.sh

Usage ./marketplace-ami-encryptor.sh {region} {ami} {name}
Example: ./marketplace-ami-encryptor.sh us-east-1 ami-f6eed4e0 OpenVPN

This make take a few minutes. Output looks like

Creating instance from marketplace AMI ami-f6eed4e0
Waiting for instance i-0d3a37ce1eb4b3f24 to be running and status OK...
Creating encrypted image
Waiting for AMI ami-01bfa37a, to be available...
Terminating unencrypted instance...
Everything is good! Your new AMI 'OpenVPN Encrypted' is available as ami-01bfa37a

aws-ami-encryptor.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e

export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=$1
MARKETPLACE_AMI=$2
NAME=$3

# Run Instance from Base AMI
echo "Creating instance from marketplace AMI $MARKETPLACE_AMI"
INSTANCE=`aws ec2 run-instances --image-id $MARKETPLACE_AMI --count 1 --instance-type t2.micro --query 'Instances[0].InstanceId'`
INSTANCE=`sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//' <<<"$INSTANCE"`

echo "Waiting for instance $INSTANCE to be running and status OK..."
aws ec2 wait instance-status-ok --instance-ids $INSTANCE

echo "Creating account AMI copy"
AMI_COPY=`aws ec2 create-image --instance-id $INSTANCE --block-device-mappings DeviceName=/dev/sda1,Ebs={Encrypted=True} --name "$MARKETPLACE_AMI Copy for $NAME" --query 'ImageId'`
AMI_COPY=`sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//' <<<"$AMI_COPY"`

echo "Waiting for AMI COPY $AMI_COPY to be available..."
aws ec2 wait image-available --image-ids $AMI_COPY

echo "Terminating unencrypted instance..."
TERMINATION=`aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids $INSTANCE`

echo "Creating Encrypted AMI"
AMI_ENC=`aws ec2 copy-image --source-image-id $AMI_COPY --name "$NAME Encrypted" --encrypted --source-region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION --query 'ImageId'`
AMI_ENC=`sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//' <<<"$AMI_ENC"`

echo "Waiting for Encrypted AMI $AMI_ENC to be available..."
aws ec2 wait image-available --image-ids $AMI_ENC

echo "Deleting unneeded AMI Copy"
REMOVED=`aws ec2 deregister-image --image-id $AMI_COPY`

aws ec2 wait instance-terminated --instance-ids $INSTANCE
echo "Everything is good! Your new AMI '$NAME Encrypted' is available as $AMI"

It seems that is it not working any more

Creating instance from marketplace AMI ami-xxx

An error occurred (UnsupportedOperation) when calling the RunInstances operation: The instance configuration for this AWS Marketplace product is not supported. Please see the AWS Marketplace site for more information about supported instance types, regions, and operating systems.