Will my AMI be a part of the S3 bucket storage or will it be residing in some other storage area, like within EC2?

Question

I'm a beginner in AWS and I'm gathering information about uploading and launching my .vmdk file on AWS. One thing that I'm not sure about is, after I upload my .vmdk to S3 bucket and import it into EC2, will the newly created AMI reside in the S3 bucket along with my uploaded .vmdk file or will be residing in the EC2? Also, will there be charges for storing the AMI as well apart from the .vmdk file?

Answer 1

will the newly created AMI reside in the S3 bucket along with my uploaded .vmdk file or will be residing in the EC2?

It will be stored in a new S3 bucket, only accessible through the EC2 Instance

will there be charges for storing the AMI as well apart from the .vmdk file?

Yes, there will be charges for both of them. You could delete the .vmdk once you know your EC2 Instance is correct and you have a valid AMI from that EC2 Instance.

More information here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-an-ami-ebs.html