Amazon Machine Image (AMI) (AMI)
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Amazon Web Services
An encrypted machine image stored in Amazon Elastic Block Store or Amazon Simple Storage Service. AMIs are like a template of a computer's root drive. They contain the operating system and can also include software and layers of your application, such as database servers, middleware, web servers, and so on.
- — AWS ElastiCache User Guide Glossary retrieved 2014-05-26
A template containing a software configuration which provides the information necessary to launch an instance. End-users have the choice of choosing an AMI provided by AWS or those sold on the AWS Marketplace.
- — Glossary of AWS Terms retrieved 2014-05-26
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Amazon EC2
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an encrypted machine image stored in Amazon S3. It contains all the information necessary to boot instances of your software.