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Benefits of EC2 Image Builder

EC2 Image Builder simplifies the creation, maintenance, validation, sharing, and deployment of Linux or Windows Server images for use with Amazon EC2 and on-premises. Keeping server images up-to-date can be time consuming, resource intensive, and error-prone. Currently, customers either manually update and snapshot VMs or have teams that build automation scripts to maintain images. Image Builder significantly reduces the effort of keeping images up-to-date and secure by providing a simple graphical interface, built-in automation, and AWS-provided security settings. With Image Builder, there are no manual steps for updating an image nor do you have to build your own automation pipeline. Image Builder is offered at no cost, other than the cost of the underlying AWS resources used to create, store, and share the images. EC2 Image Builder is a fully-managed service that makes it easy to build, customize and deploy OS images without writing scripts. The advantages of using the AWS s...