Building a custom AMI pipeline
EC2 Image Builder is a fully managed service that provides an automated pipeline to build and keep AMIs up to date and secure for you. As you may know, maintaining Windows Server images is very time-consuming, resource intensive, and error prone as since the old days we used to keep and maintain operational system images on VMware.
Important note
EC2 Image Builder is free, and you pay only for the underlying AWS resources used to create, store, and share the images.
EC2 Image Builder uses AWS Task Orchestrator and Executor (AWSTOE). An AWS document (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/imagebuilder/latest/userguide/imagebuilder-ug.pdf) defines AWSTOE as a “standalone application that creates, validates, and runs commands within a component definition framework.” With AWSTOE, you can modify system configuration and orchestrate complex workflows without writing code. That means you can have a series of components written in YAML, which...
