Amazon EC2 Console adds ‘Verified Provider’ label for public AMIs
You can now use the ‘Verified Provider’ label on the EC2 Console to pick public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are owned by Amazon verified accounts. Previously, customers would need to check the owner IDs of AMIs that were publicly shared to identify the source of the AMI. IDs of verified sources were not always easily available. The new label on the console helps you easily identify trusted sources for publicly-shared AMIs. These trusted sources can be Amazon and its partners or AMI providers from AWS Marketplace.
You can now use the ‘Verified Provider’ label on the EC2 Console to pick public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are owned by Amazon verified accounts. Previously, customers would need to check the owner IDs of AMIs that were publicly shared to identify the source of the AMI. IDs of verified sources were not always easily available. The new label on the console helps you easily identify trusted sources for publicly-shared AMIs. These trusted sources can be Amazon and its partners or AMI providers from AWS Marketplace.
You can see the ‘Verified Provider’ label on public AMIs through the EC2 Console on the launch wizard or the AMI catalog. You can also filter AMIs to only view AMIs from verified sources. Through AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), you can identify such AMIs using the owner-alias property. AMIs shared by verified sources will have ‘amazon’ or ‘aws-marketplace’ as the value for owner-alias.
‘Verified Provider’ labels are available on the console in all AWS commercial regions with the exception of Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. To know more about this feature, please refer to the documentation here.