Stop Building EC2 Instances by Hand — Packer Quick Start
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AWS Packer Quick Start — Build EC2 AMIs Without Doing It by Hand
We walk through a concise, end-to-end example of building *reusable EC2 AMIs on AWS*
using Packer — the kind you can clone, run, and immediately deploy from.
No theory. No hand-built servers. Just a clean, automated AMI pipeline.
What gets built:
A Linux EC2 AMI provisioned over SSH with Apache and a retro HTML game demo
A Windows Server 2022 AMI provisioned over WinRM, fully patched, with
Chrome and Firefox installed and finalized using EC2Launch + Sysprep
This project demonstrates a practical AWS Packer Quick Start pattern:
Push-button AMI builds
Native AWS integrations
Secure credential handling
Images that are ready to launch immediately
If you want a *real, repo-backed example* of using Packer on AWS — something
you can run in minutes instead of studying for hours — this video is for you.
GitHub (Quick Start Repo)
https://github.com/mamonaco1973/aws-p...
README
https://github.com/mamonaco1973/aws-p...
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Build the Code
01:10 Build Results