Comments on: Copy an EBS AMI image to another Amazon EC2 Region

By: Lincoln Stein

Lincoln Stein — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:06:04 +0000

There is a perl script that will automate this from the command line:

http://search.cpan.org/~lds/VM-EC2-1.10/bin/migrate-ebs-image.pl

The command looks like this:

migrate-ebs-image.pl –from us-east-1 –to ap-southeast-1 ami-123456

By: Robert J Berger

Robert J Berger — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:52:47 +0000

In reply to EC2 Administrator.

http://books.google.com/books/about/In_the_Beginning_was_the_Command_Line.html?id=OmnF5MGRNn8C

By: EC2 Administrator

EC2 Administrator — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:43:19 +0000

We don’t use command line.

By: Adentrándose en la nube con Amazon Web Services (AWS) y Cloud Computing : Init Developers

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:43:55 +0000

[…] Regiones: toda estructura de Amazon está dividida en regiones. Las regiones son arquitecturas físicamente INDEPENDIENTES entre sí. Puedes montar máquinas en una u otra región, pero no puedes crear máquinas en una región y migrarlas a otras. Son independientes, y eso hay que tenerlo en cuenta. Hay cinco regiones disponibles: dos en USA (una por costa), una en Irlanda, otra en Tokyo y otra en Singapur. Es buena idea tener una máquina en una región y algún clon en otra; pero para ello, tendrás que copiar la AMI de una a otra. Aquí te explican cómo hacerlo (no es fácil). […]

By: nanao

nanao — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:12:08 +0000

correction:
… Cloudy_Scripts, it also does NOT work …

By: nanao

nanao — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:04:50 +0000

Looks like this will work only for linux ebs ami, not windows ami, is this correct? I need to move windows ebs ami, any other suggestions?

I’ve tried Cloudy_Scripts, it also does work for windows ami.

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Moving Your Amazon EC2 AMIs To Another Region « the agile admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:26:19 +0000

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By: The Real Lessons To Learn From The Amazon EC2 Outage « the agile admin

The Real Lessons To Learn From The Amazon EC2 Outage « the agile admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:41:08 +0000

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Move EBS AMI’s across regions | Ryan Tan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:02:36 +0000

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By: Prabhakar Chaganti

Prabhakar Chaganti — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:39:38 +0000

Ylastic lets you do this entire process very simply through a UI. You provide a few parameters, and click a button – http://blog.ylastic.com/super-simple-ami-migration-between-ec2-region