Amazon EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling groups now supports aliases for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
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The article announces a new feature for Amazon EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling groups, which allows using custom identifiers (aliases) to reference Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) during instance launch, instead of using the AMI ID directly.
Specifically, the article covers:
- EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling groups now support using custom identifiers (aliases) for AMIs.
- These identifiers can be created using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
- Using aliases simplifies automation and eliminates the need to modify code when a new AMI version is created.
- The feature is available in all AWS commercial regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) regions.
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