How to store AMI file to S3 bucket?

Question

I am having an Ubuntu ec2 instance at AWS. I took AMI for the instance. I want to store the AMI to S3 bucket. Is there any way? Also is there anyway to export AMI from S3 bucket?

Answer 1

Thank you John.

Hi Guys, I had chat with AWS support also. For your reference ,

10:15:45 AM Myself: Well i have some doubts. I will ask and just clear in me on that. 
10:15:49 AM AWS support: Sure 
10:15:59 AM AWS support: I'll be happy to do so 
10:16:25 AM Myself: Is there any option to sore AMI in S3 bucket. 
10:16:46 AM AWS support: No, this is not possible 
10:17:05 AM AWS support: AMI data is a simple configuration file 
10:17:11 AM AWS support: This is backed by S3 
10:17:18 AM AWS support: But not stored in an S3 bucket 
10:17:27 AM AWS support: The exact same is true for Snapshots 
10:17:45 AM AWS support: It is stored and backed by S3- but not something that can be placed in one of your buckets 
10:17:59 AM Myself: is it possible to view that in s3? 
10:18:51 AM AWS support: No, this is not something that is visible in S3, I am sorry to say 
10:19:57 AM Myself: OK. I need to download the AMI . what can i do? 
10:20:19 AM AWS support: AMI data is not something that is downloadable 
10:20:35 AM AWS support: Are you seeking to Download your whole instance? 
10:20:46 AM AWS support: Or download a complete volume? 
10:21:07 AM AWS support: If you originally imported your instance from a VM, you can Export the VM 10:21:29 AM AWS support: But its an EC2 instance that was created in EC2, you can not- I am really sorry to say 
10:22:02 AM Myself: Okay fine. 

Answer 2

I ran into the same problem and to my delight, AWS has since innovated something about this.

You can store and restore your AMI in S3 now. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ami-store-restore.html#store-ami

-- UPDATE: the version of AWS CLI is matter