Can I download an EC2 instance in vhd format? Or download it in AMI format and convert it to VHD?
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Amazon EC2 has only provided VM Import at the time you posted your question still, but initial support for this long requested feature has finally been released on May 25 2012 as well, see the introductory post VM Export Service For Amazon EC2:
Please note that VM Import/Export is still limited to Microsoft Windows only though, specifically:
Hopefully the latter will be realized soon, as this would significantly increase EC2 versatility in general and for development scenarios in particular, more recent and lightweight DevOps approaches to the underlying deployment problem notwithstanding.