Convert OVA to AWS AMI

There are cases, were you have to convert on-prem OVA to AWS AMI.

Below are steps to convert an OVA to AWS AMI:

1. Upload the file to EC2 instance.
2. Unzip the file
   tar xvf xxxxxxx_xxx_xx.ova
3. Copy the .vmdk file to S3 bucket
4. Create a file in ec2 — conversion.json

[{

“Description”: “Convert OVA to AMI”,

“Format”: “vmdk”,

“UserBucket”: {

“S3Bucket”: “s3bucketname”,

“S3Key”: “xxxxxxx_xxx_xx.vmdk”

}}]

5. Execute —

aws ec2 import-image — description “Convert OVA to AMI” — disk-containers file://conversion.json

6. Execute —

aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks — import-task-ids import-ami-xxxx

Let me know in comments if you have any issues :)