---
name: "euca-create-image"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "euca2ools"
version: "3.3.1-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/euca-create-image"
---

# euca-create-image(1)

Create an EBS image from a running or stopped EBS instance

## NAME

euca-create-image - Create an EBS image from a running or stopped EBS instance

## SYNOPSIS

euca-create-image **-n** NAME \[-d DESC\] \[--no-reboot\] \[-b DEVICE=MAPPED\]

- \[--show-empty-fields\] \[-U URL\] \[--region USER@REGION\]

  \[-I KEY\_ID\] \[-S KEY\] \[--security-token TOKEN\] \[--debug\] \[--debugger\] \[--version\] \[-h\] INSTANCE

## DESCRIPTION

Create an EBS image from a running or stopped EBS instance

### positional arguments:

- INSTANCE

  instance from which to create the image (required)

### optional arguments:

- **-n** NAME, **--name** NAME

  name for the new image (required)

- **-d** DESC, **--description** DESC

  description for the new image

- **--no-reboot**

  do not shut down the instance before creating the image. Image integrity may be affected.

- **-b** DEVICE=MAPPED, **--block-device-mapping** DEVICE=MAPPED

  define a block device mapping for the image, in the form DEVICE=MAPPED, where "MAPPED" is "none", "ephemeral(0-3)", or "\[SNAP\_ID\]:\[GiB\]:\[true\|false\]:\[st andard\|VOLTYPE\[:IOPS\]\]"

- **--show-empty-fields**

  show empty values as "(nil)"

- **-U** URL, **--url** URL

  compute service endpoint URL

- **--region** USER@REGION

  region and/or user names to search when looking up config file data

**-I** KEY\_ID, **--access-key-id** KEY\_ID

**-S** KEY, **--secret-key** KEY

**--security-token** TOKEN

- **--debug**

  show debugging output

- **--debugger**

  launch interactive debugger on error

- **--version**

  show the program's version and exit

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit