diff --git a/baseimage/createEC2Image b/baseimage/createEC2Image
index ea265de33..7d5955ea4 100755
--- a/baseimage/createEC2Image
+++ b/baseimage/createEC2Image
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ echo "Terminating instance"
 aws ec2 terminate-instances --region ${region} --profile ${aws_credentials} --instance-ids ${instance_id}
 
 echo "Make image public"
-aws ec2 modify-image-attribute --region ${region} --profile ${aws_credentials} --image-id ${instance_id} --launch-permission "{\"Add\":[{\"Group\":\"all\"}]}"
+aws ec2 modify-image-attribute --region ${region} --profile ${aws_credentials} --image-id ${image_id} --launch-permission "{\"Add\":[{\"Group\":\"all\"}]}"
 
 echo "Copy image to other regions"
 aws ec2 copy-image --region us-west-2 --profile ${aws_credentials} --source-image-id ${image_id} --source-region ${region} --name ${snapshot_name}