# Ansible - create limitless amount of instances from one ami

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-create-limitless-amount-of-instances-from-one-ami/23978>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-create-limitless-amount-of-instances-from-one-ami/23978 "2017-03-15T14:03:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jaspis\_Praha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@Jaspis\_Praha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jaspis_Praha)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-create-limitless-amount-of-instances-from-one-ami/23978/1 "2017-03-15T14:03:04Z")

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Hi,

I created and configured my instance and I woud like to create thousands of the same instances from the original one. I manualy created an image (ami) from my original instance and I would like to use following playbook which should fro testing purposes create only 2 additional instances (requirments met: boto, exported access and secret keys):