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An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a pre-built package of software which can be used to create or instantiate a virtual machine within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

An AMI forms the basic unit of deployment for services delivered using EC2 and typically includes the operating system (for example Linux, UNIX, or Windows) and additional software necessary to deliver a service.