You can publish custom images that are in the Available state as community images. This topic describes how to publish a custom image in the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) console.
Prerequisites
- The owner of each community image is responsible for maintaining the quality and updates of the image. Alibaba Cloud merely provides the platform where community images are published and managed. Therefore, you must fully understand Product Terms, Terms of Use, and Membership Agreement before you publish a community image.
- No sensitive words are contained in the name and description of the community image to be published, and no trojans, vulnerabilities, or weak passwords are contained in the community image.
Background information
Before you publish a community image, take note of the following items:
- Encrypted images cannot be published as community images.
- You must sign Product Terms, Terms of Use, and Membership Agreement before you can publish a community image.
- Community images are publicly available. A community image is available to all Alibaba Cloud accounts in the region where it resides.
- Community images cannot be shared, exported, or copied.