Amazon EC2 Image Builder

Overview

Domain expertise for building custom AMIs and container images with EC2 Image Builder — from the build IAM role through recipes, pipelines, distribution, and troubleshooting.

Works best with the AWS MCP server — recommended for sandboxed execution and audit logging. All guidance also works with standard AWS CLI access.

Guardrail — where this skill's own files live (MCP vs local install)

This skill can be loaded two ways, and they resolve the skill's own bundled files from different places. Determine how the skill was loaded before reading a reference or running a script: