Deploying a custom ISO to AWS

[b0redom]

Hi All,
Looking for a bit of a pointer on this. A customer has asked me to spin up a couple of VMs in AWS for them. The only potential fly in the ointment is that they need to install a custom OS.

All of the reference material I've found seems to imply you can only use a basic ISO from the marketplace and the customise it (either using Chef or by creating a new base OS and then snapshotting it).

Is it even possible to install a custom OS inside AWS?

Regards....

b0redom

[RSoles]

Interesting question.
I've not done it myself; only used Ubuntu or Amazon Linux.
Some discussion here:-
amazon ec2 - Create New EC2 Instance with Custom ISO - Stack Overflow

[SpontaneousOrder]

Hi All,
Looking for a bit of a pointer on this. A customer has asked me to spin up a couple of VMs in AWS for them. The only potential fly in the ointment is that they need to install a custom OS.

All of the reference material I've found seems to imply you can only use a basic ISO from the marketplace and the customise it (either using Chef or by creating a new base OS and then snapshotting it).

Is it even possible to install a custom OS inside AWS?

Regards....

b0redom

It used to be, certainly. You build a custom ami and upload that.

[jackhammer]

If you want to ami a custom os then install that on VMware or virtualbox. Then create an ova and upload to s3 and then import your ova as an ami.