I'm trying to find out an easy and simple way to preserve all the settings and structure for my current SQL server without the data (except for the system dbs obviously) so that I can use this backup/image to launch a new server as an exact duplicate of the old server. I'll bring all the database up to date by restoring from the db backups. This will save me from all the other tedious work like security setup, jobs, etc. I don't need the data for the image so as to minimize the storage and relaunch time.
Any suggestions?
PS. If it makes any additional sense, I'm on Amzon Cloud (AWS).