Announcing flexible AMI distribution capabilities for EC2 Image Builder

Amazon EC2 Image Builder now allows you to distribute existing Amazon Machine Images(AMIs), retry distributions, and define custom distribution workflows. Distribution workflows are a new workflow type that complements existing build and test workflows, enabling you to define sequential distribution steps such as AMI copy operations, wait-for-action checkpoints, and AMI attribute modifications.

With enhanced distribution capabilities, you can now distribute an existing image to multiple regions and accounts without running a full Image Builder pipeline. Simply specify your AMI and distribution configuration, and Image Builder handles the copying and sharing process. Additionally, with distribution workflows, you can now customize distribution process by defining custom steps. For example, you can distribute AMIs to a test region first, add a wait-for-action step to pause for validation, and then continue distribution to production regions after approval. This provides the same step-level visibility and control you have with build and test workflows.

These capabilities are available to all customers at no additional costs, in all AWS regions including AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
You can get started from the EC2 Image Builder Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation, or CDK, and learn more in the EC2 Image Builder documentation.