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Custom Amazon Machine Images (VM Templates).
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Customization examples that could be baked into an EC2 instance template.
Create an auto updating instance
#!/bin/bash # Update right after launch yum -y update # Install bash-completion and yum-cron yum -y install bash-completion vim yum-cron # Set to auto update daily sed -i 's/apply_updates = no/apply_updates = yes/' /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf # Reboot instance reboot