You can unpublish published community images if you want to update them or stop maintaining them. This topic describes how to unpublish a community image in the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) console.
Background information
Before you unpublish a community image, take note of the following items:
- After a community image is unpublished, it is no longer available to other Alibaba Cloud accounts. If the community image was shared to other Alibaba Cloud accounts before it is unpublished, the share relationship continues.
- After a community image is unpublished, the system disks of ECS instances created by using this community image cannot be re-initialized.