How do I create an AMI from my EBS backed EC2 instance?

Before going to your questions I would suggest that you back up your MySQL database to a file which is not stored as a snapshot or in an EBS before you start creating the image. (And of course test that you can restore it to somewhere else than your production system.).

Amazon console gives you an option to do this STUFF.

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