Continued from Installing and Configuring Jenkins CI
Make a backup of the Amazon EC2 configuration
- Log into your Amazon Ec2 account
- Under the “My instances” select your Jenkins install
- Under “Instance Actions” to “Create Image (EBS AMI)” and give it an appropriate name and description
It is advisable to shutdown your EC2 image when you are not using it to avoid billing (not so important with the free Micro instance, but a good practice to get into)
Continued in Relaunching the Amazon EC2 image