Manage recipes in Image Builder
An EC2 Image Builder recipe defines the base image to use as your starting point to create a new image, along with the set of components that you add to customize your image and verify that everything works as expected. Image Builder provides automatic version choices for each component. By default, you can apply up to 20 components to a recipe. This includes both build and test components.
After you create a recipe, you can't modify or replace it. To update components after you create a recipe, you must create a new recipe or recipe version. You can always apply tags to your existing recipes. For more information about tagging your resources using Image Builder commands in the AWS CLI, see the Tag resources section of this guide.
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You can use Amazon managed components in your recipes, or you can develop your own custom components. For more information, see Develop custom components for your Image Builder image. For image recipes that create output AMIs, you can also use AWS Marketplace image products and components. For more information about integration with AWS Marketplace products, see AWS Marketplace integration in Image Builder.
This section covers how to list, view, and create recipes.
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Clean up resources
To avoid unexpected charges, make sure to clean up resources and pipelines that you created from the examples in this guide. For more information about deleting resources in Image Builder, see Delete outdated or unused Image Builder resources.
