ec2-create-instance-export-task {instance id} -e vmware -f vmdk -c ova -b {bucket name} Source: Exporting Amazon EC2 Instances – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Tag: EC2
Start virtual machine from ova file stored in AWS S3 as new EC2 instance
aws ec2 import-image –cli-input-json “{ \”Description\”: \”Instance Name\”, \”DiskContainers\”: [ { \”Description\”: \”First CLI task\”, \”UserBucket\”: { \”S3Bucket\”: \”S2-BUCKET-NAME\”, \”S3Key\” : \”FILENAME.ova\”}}]}”