Does Creating an Image of an Amazon EC2 Linux instance cause downtime?

amazon-ec2, amazon-web-services

Solution

It is my opinion that No Reboot should prevent the image creation from rebooting. If you are the api user, it also provides argument --no-reboot to do it.

Problem

Does Creating an Image of an Amazon EC2 Linux instance cause any downtime? Can I image a running server?

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