Amazon EC2 Instance Gone?

Hello,

Is the Amazon EC2 Paid AMI gone? I got to a purchase subscription, even got an emailed confirmation however:

ec2-describe-images -o 541491349868 (returns nothing)

Acannis:~ maeltor$ ec2-run-instances ami-cd00c6a4 -k vgpl-keypair Client.InvalidAMIID.NotFound: The image id '[ami-cd00c6a4]' does not exist

Is this no longer an option? I like the idea of paying for the license as I need it, versus up front costs.

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Looks like Amazon has messed up our account :-( I am looking into this with them now ..

Try it again now - the AMI should be available now.

No luck. I'm using:

export EC2_URL=https://ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

Acannis:~ maeltor$ ec2-describe-images -o 541491349868 Acannis:~ maeltor$ ec2-run-instances ami-cd00c6a4 -k vgpl-keypair Client.InvalidAMIID.NotFound: The image id '[ami-cd00c6a4]' does not exist

Ok, you are using the us-west-1 region. In that case, the correct AMI to use is ami-bc3a08f9

ok now we're getting somewhere but I have a new error:

Client.AuthFailure: Not authorized for images: [ami-bc3a08f9]

Oops, permissions on the new AMI weren't correct. Give it another try now.

At least we're getting closer!!:

Acannis:~ maeltor$ ec2-run-instances ami-bc3a08f9 -k vgpl-keypair Client.AuthFailure: Unable to launch image ami-bc3a08f9 as the product code C3D80217 is not supported for the specified region, instance type and operating system combination. Please contact the vendor for more information.

Try this AMI instead : ami-6e48295e

The previous one I gave was for the California UI west region (us-west-1), but you are actually using us-west-2.

Exact same error.

Acannis:~ maeltor$ ec2-run-instances ami-6e48295e -k vgpl-keypair Client.AuthFailure: Unable to launch image ami-6e48295e as the product code C3D80217 is not supported for the specified region, instance type and operating system combination. Please contact the vendor for more information.

Acannis:~ maeltor$ echo $EC2_URL https://ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

I looked into this some more, and discovered that for paid AMIs Amazon requires that they be separately registered (and priced!) in each region. So I went ahead and did this, but it is unclear how long it will take for the new pricing to take effect .. so you may not be able to launch in the us-west-2 region right away.

However, launching of AMI ami-cfb686a6 in the us-east-1 region should work fine.

Man AWS just hates me:

Acannis:~ maeltor$ ec2-run-instances ami-cfb686a6 -k vgpl-keypair Client.AuthFailure: Not authorized for images: [ami-cfb686a6] Acannis:~ maeltor$ echo $EC2_URL https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com Acannis:~ maeltor$