I have some micro instances with EBS volumes and from the ec2 console you can right click and create a AMI image of the whole system.
But I bought some High-Memory Reserved Instances which had 500GB of storage so I installed a "Instance Store" ubuntu AMI image
Now I have configured everything on my server and want to create a instance store ami image so that I can install those images on new servers and I don't have to install everything again
How can I do this?
This is how you do it with Ubuntu: Launch desired instance from here (pick one without EBS storage): http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/
Follow this guide here (look below for hints concerning Ubuntu): http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-snapshot-s3-linux.html
scp -i <path-to-your-ec2key>.pem <your-account-pk>.pem <your-account-cert>.pem ubuntu@<yourinstance>.<yourzone>.compute.amazonaws.com:~/
sudo apt-get install ec2-ami-tools
ec2-bundle-vol -k <your-account-pk>.pem -c <your-account-cert>.pem -u <user_id>
Good Luck!