Manage AMI sharing with an organization or OU - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Manage AMI sharing with an organization or OU

You can manage AMI sharing with organizations and organization units (OU) to control whether they can launch Amazon EC2 instances.

View the organizations and OUs with which an AMI is shared

You can use the Amazon EC2 console or the AWS CLI to check with which organizations and OUs you've shared your AMI.

Console
To check with which organizations and OUs you've shared your AMI

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose AMIs.

  3. Select your AMI in the list, choose the Permissions tab, and scroll down to Shared organizations/OUs.

    To find AMIs that are shared with you, see Find shared AMIs to use for Amazon EC2 instances.

AWS CLI

You can check which organizations and OUs you've shared your AMI with by using the describe-image-attribute command (AWS CLI) and the launchPermission attribute.

To check with which organizations and OUs you've shared your AMI

The describe-image-attribute command describes the launchPermission attribute for the specified AMI, and returns the organizations and OUs with which you've shared the AMI.

aws ec2 describe-image-attribute \
    --image-id ami-0abcdef1234567890 \
    --attribute launchPermission

The following is an example response.

{
    "ImageId": "ami-0abcdef1234567890",
    "LaunchPermissions": [
        {
            "OrganizationalUnitArn": "arn:aws:organizations::111122223333:ou/o-123example/ou-1234-5example"
        }
    ]
}

Share an AMI with an organization or OU

You can use the Amazon EC2 console or the AWS CLI to share an AMI with an organization or OU.

Note

You do not need to share the Amazon EBS snapshots that an AMI references in order to share the AMI. Only the AMI itself needs to be shared, and the system automatically provides the instance with access to the referenced Amazon EBS snapshots for the launch. However, you do need to share the KMS keys used to encrypt snapshots that the AMI references. For more information, see Allow organizations and OUs to use a KMS key.

Console
To share an AMI with an organization or an OU

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose AMIs.

  3. Select your AMI in the list, and then choose Actions, Edit AMI permissions.

  4. Under AMI availability, choose Private.

  5. Next to Shared organizations/OUs, choose Add organization/OU ARN.

  6. For Organization/OU ARN, enter the organization ARN or OU ARN with which you want to share the AMI, and then choose Share AMI. Note that you must specify the full ARN, not just the ID.

    To share this AMI with multiple organizations or OUs, repeat this step until you have added all of the required organizations or OUs.

  7. Choose Save changes when you're done.

  8. (Optional) To view the organizations or OUs with which you have shared the AMI, select the AMI in the list, choose the Permissions tab, and scroll down to Shared organizations/OUs. To find AMIs that are shared with you, see Find shared AMIs to use for Amazon EC2 instances.

AWS CLI

Use the modify-image-attribute command to share an AMI.

To share an AMI with an organization

The modify-image-attribute command grants launch permissions for the specified AMI to the specified organization. Note that you must specify the full ARN, not just the ID.

aws ec2 modify-image-attribute \
    --image-id ami-0abcdef1234567890 \
    --launch-permission "Add=[{OrganizationArn=arn:aws:organizations::123456789012:organization/o-123example}]"
To share an AMI with an OU

The modify-image-attribute command grants launch permissions for the specified AMI to the specified OU. Note that you must specify the full ARN, not just the ID.

aws ec2 modify-image-attribute \
    --image-id ami-0abcdef1234567890 \
    --launch-permission "Add=[{OrganizationalUnitArn=arn:aws:organizations::123456789012:ou/o-123example/ou-1234-5example}]"
PowerShell

Use the Edit-EC2ImageAttribute command (Tools for Windows PowerShell) to share an AMI as shown in the following examples.

To share an AMI with an organization or an OU

The following command grants launch permissions for the specified AMI to the specified organization.

PS C:\> Edit-EC2ImageAttribute -ImageId ami-0abcdef1234567890 -Attribute launchPermission -OperationType add -OrganizationArn "arn:aws:organizations::123456789012:organization/o-123example"
To stop sharing an AMI with an organization or OU

The following command removes launch permissions for the specified AMI from the specified organization:

PS C:\> Edit-EC2ImageAttribute -ImageId ami-0abcdef1234567890 -Attribute launchPermission -OperationType remove -OrganizationArn "arn:aws:organizations::123456789012:organization/o-123example"

To stop sharing an AMI with all organizations, OUs, and AWS accounts

The following command removes all public and explicit launch permissions from the specified AMI. Note that the owner of the AMI always has launch permissions and is therefore unaffected by this command.

PS C:\> Reset-EC2ImageAttribute -ImageId ami-0abcdef1234567890 -Attribute launchPermission

Stop sharing an AMI with an organization or OU

You can use the Amazon EC2 console or the AWS CLI to stop sharing an AMI with an organization or OU.

Note

You can't stop sharing an AMI with a specific account if it's in an organization or OU with which an AMI is shared. If you try to stop sharing the AMI by removing launch permissions for the account, Amazon EC2 returns a success message. However, the AMI continues to be shared with the account.

Console
To stop sharing an AMI with an organization or OU

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose AMIs.

  3. Select your AMI in the list, and then choose Actions, Edit AMI permissions.

  4. Under Shared organizations/OUs, select the organizations or OUs with which you want to stop sharing the AMI, and then choose Remove selected.

  5. Choose Save changes when you're done.

  6. (Optional) To confirm that you have stopped sharing the AMI with the organizations or OUs, select the AMI in the list, choose the Permissions tab, and scroll down to Shared organizations/OUs.

AWS CLI

Use the modify-image-attribute or reset-image-attribute commands to stop sharing an AMI.

To stop sharing an AMI with an organization or OU

The modify-image-attribute command removes launch permissions for the specified AMI from the specified organization. Note that you must specify the ARN.

aws ec2 modify-image-attribute \
    --image-id ami-0abcdef1234567890 \
    --launch-permission "Remove=[{OrganizationArn=arn:aws:organizations::123456789012:organization/o-123example}]"
To stop sharing an AMI with all organizations, OUs, and AWS accounts

The reset-image-attribute command removes all public and explicit launch permissions from the specified AMI. Note that the owner of the AMI always has launch permissions and is therefore unaffected by this command.

aws ec2 reset-image-attribute \
    --image-id ami-0abcdef1234567890 \
    --attribute launchPermission