Would you be willing to publish an AMI of the completed image? Seems like that'd make it really easy to run without all of the package management work.
Yes, I have a running instance up now in USWest. If it is free and somebody could shoot me instructions I'll make it an AMI (after lunch, on the way out the door right now).
Actually I started looking into it. I don't think I am going to make the AMI.
First I am not sure if the NVIDIA driver licenses do or do not allow this. Second I would have to tear down my current run and pay S3 charges to distribute the AMI. Third the instructions are long and ugly ( http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-... ) even after seeing the setup steps. Finally as people have mentioned in other comments there is a good to go Docker image for people to also play with.
For what it's worth, I've had luck just using the AWS EC2 web console, and choosing "Create Image" and "No reboot" from the instance's context menu. That spits out an EBS snapshot and an EBS-backed AMI based on the snapshot, which is probably what you were after. I went through the instance store image creation steps a long time ago for a project that deployed on custom AMIs and it was pretty convoluted; we ended up going EBS-backed and skipping the instance store altogether.
