Tagging EC2 AMIs and Cross-Account Sharing

Let’s paint a picture: You manage a vast array of AWS accounts across many different OUs and environments. Your team has spent a lot of time coming up with an excellent CI/CD solution to pump out hardened AMIs. Here’s some ‘gotchas I have ran into recently surrounding this topic. You can share an AMI with specific AWS accounts without making the AMI public. All you need are the AWS account IDs.…