Speed up AMI and ASG Creation

Question

using Ansible I create an AMI of a ubuntu instance then using this AMI to create an Launch configuration and then update and auto scaling group, is there any shortcuts I can take to speed up the ASG and AMI steps, take 10mins+

Answer 1

Use an EBS backed AMI instead of an Instance Store backed AMI. From the AWS docs:

           Amazon EBS-Backed             Amazon Instance Store-Backed
Boot time  Usually less than 1 minute    Usually less than 5 minutes

--http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ComponentsAMIs.html#storage-for-the-root-device