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VM Images

VM Images gives you a centralised view of all Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) stored across your cloud accounts. Browse, manage, and export the status of your custom images — the same AMIs you create from the VM Instances section — all from one place.

What are VM Images?

An Amazon Machine Image is a snapshot of a virtual machine at a specific point in time. It captures the operating system, installed software, configuration, and data on the root volume, allowing you to launch new instances that are identical to the original — instantly and repeatedly.

In QuickInfra, VM Images serves as your AMI catalogue. Every image you have created — whether directly from the VM Instances section or independently in your cloud account — is listed here with its architecture, root device type, creation date, and current availability state. You can use these images as the base for new infrastructure deployments across any project.

Note:AMIs listed here are fetched live from your cloud account. Any image created via the Create AMI Backup action in VM Instances will appear in this list once it reaches the Available state.

VM Images list in QuickInfra showing available AMIs — The VM Images screen — filter by provider, account, and region to view all your AMIs with their state and details.

How to View Your Images

Navigate to Manage → VM Images

From the left sidebar select Manage then VM Images. You will see the filter controls at the top of the screen.

Select your filters

Choose a Cloud Provider, select the Cloud Account you want to query, and pick a Region. Optionally filter by a specific Project if you want to see only images associated with a particular set of infrastructure.

Fetch Images

Click Fetch Images. QuickInfra queries your cloud account and returns all AMIs matching your selected filters. If your cloud account is configured with an Assume Role ARN, QuickInfra uses it automatically during the fetch.

Review your image catalogue

Each row in the list displays the Image Name, Image ID, Architecture (e.g. x86_64 or arm64), Root Device type (EBS or instance store), Creation Date, and current State. Action buttons on the right let you download details or delete the image.

Actions Available per Image

Export to S3 — Export the AMI as a portable machine image directly to your S3 bucket. This makes the image completely independent of the cloud provider — you can export from AWS and later import it into a different provider or region, eliminating vendor lock-in on your base images.
Download — Pull image metadata and details directly for record-keeping or use in external workflows.
Delete — Deregister the AMI from your cloud account permanently. This does not delete associated snapshots — those must be removed separately from your cloud console.

Tip:Before deleting an AMI, verify that no active infrastructure projects or launch templates reference it. Deleting an image that is in use will cause those deployments to fail on the next launch attempt.

Warning:Deleting an AMI is irreversible within QuickInfra. The underlying EBS snapshots associated with the image remain in your cloud account and continue to incur storage costs until manually removed from your cloud console.

Key Things to Know

Images are fetched live from your cloud account — the list always reflects the real-time state of your AMI catalogue.
AMIs in a Pending state are still being created — wait for the state to change to Available before using them in a deployment.
You can query images across different accounts and regions by updating the filters and fetching again.
AMIs created via the Create AMI Backup action in VM Instances are automatically named and tagged by QuickInfra for easy identification.
Architecture matters — an x86_64 AMI cannot be used to launch an ARM-based instance type and vice versa.