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Glossary: Virtualization and Cloud Basics

AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

Also written: AMIs, image ID, ami-...

The image an EC2 instance boots from: a golden image with an OS already installed. Image IDs such as ami-785db401 differ from region to region.

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golden imageEC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)instancelaunch template