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What should I do when the AMI catalogue in AWS EC2 is empty?

I just wanted to start an EC2 instance in Amazon AWS/EC2, but the list of possible "official" AMIs to equip the instance with is empty, so is the AMI catalogue (apart from 2 old AMIs I've created myself and the "unofficial" community AMIs):

Empty list in Instance creation

Empty AMI catalog

I don't think I've done anything special: Just selected my AWS location (eu-central-1) and the instance type I wanted (t2.micro). I would have expected the page to offer me AMIs to select from (Windows, Linux, with or without extra software), but the list is empty.

Does/can the catalog depend on anything else I've configured (obviously wrong)?

Solution

  • I think I have solved it.

    When you are using a javascript-blocking browser extension, make sure that none of the domains, AWS includes, is blocked. In my case, aws.dev was untrusted.