How to deploy imported VM on AWS from S3

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I have the following objects (file types shown) stored on an S3 bucket, which came from an export of an on-prem VM. How can I deploy them into an EC2 instance/AMI?

  • vmdk
  • nvram
  • mf
  • ovf

Online there is a lot of material on how to achieve this with an .ova file VM export. But been unable to find how to do it with the files I have.

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John Rotenstein On

From Importing a VM as an image using VM Import/Export - VM Import/Export:

After you have prepared your VM for export, you can export it from your virtualization environment. When importing a VM as an image, you can import disks in the following formats: Open Virtualization Archive (OVA), Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK), Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX), and raw.
With some virtualization environments, you would export to Open Virtualization Format (OVF), which typically includes one or more VMDK, VHD, or VHDX files, and then package the files into an OVA file.