If I did it twice, I'd automate it. I haven't made very many AMIs, but when I did, I got it down to a little shell script that basically goes from a blank mach

If I did it twice, I'd automate it. I haven't made very many AMIs, but when I did, I got it down to a little shell script that basically goes from a blank machine to me installing a few things I needed, building some stuff I needed, uninstalling some other stuff and uploading the images with roughly no effort on my part. The most painful part was using the web console to launch instances and then wait for them.