Elastic Compute Service:Create an instance from a community image

Prerequisites

A community image is available in your account and target region.

Billing

• Community images are publicly shared custom images. If a community image derives from a paid image, a license fee applies. See Image billing.

• You are also charged for other resources, such as vCPUs, memory, storage, public bandwidth, and snapshots. See Billing overview.

Select a community image on the instance purchase page

1. Go to the ECS instance creation page.

2. Click the Custom Launch tab.

3. Configure the billing method, region, instance type, and other parameters. See Create an instance using the wizard for details on each parameter.

4. In the Image section, click the Community Images tab, and then click View All Community Images.

   

   The community image list for the current region appears.

5. Enter a keyword such as CentOS in the search box and click the icon.

6. Find the community image for the required OS version. Hover over the image ID and click the icon to copy it.

7. Return to the ECS purchase page. Paste the image ID in the Enter Image ID field, accept the image user agreement, and complete the instance creation.

   

   Note

   • The agreement is required only when the Supplier Name is empty and you use a community image for the first time.

   • If the message The community image does not exist or does not support the selected instance type. Specify a different image. appears, the cause may be one of the following:

     • The image region differs from the instance region.

     • The image does not support the selected instance type.

Create an instance from the community image list

1. Go to ECS console - Images.

2. In the upper-left corner of the page, select a region and resource group.

3. On the Images page, click the Community Images tab.

4. Enter a keyword such as CentOS in the search box and click the icon.

5. Find the community image for the required OS version. In the Actions column, click Create Instance.

6. On the ECS purchase page, configure the remaining parameters and complete the instance creation.

   The region and community image ID are auto-populated. See Create an instance using the wizard for details on each parameter.