How to move an EC2 Instance to another region
In this post I would describe the process of moving an EC2 instance to another region. The background I have a server in one of the EC2 regions that a bit pricey than the rest. It seems that moving it to another region would save me some bucks. Well, it turns out that I did a few blunders that maybe causes the savings to be negligible. The initial plan I read that snapshots could be copied to other regions. So the original plan is to create snapshots of existing volumes that support the instance (I have one instance with three EBS volumes), copy these to another region, and create a new instance in the new region. The mistake My mistake is that I assume creating a new instance is a simple matter of selecting the platform (i386 or x86_64) and the root EBS volume. Actually, it is not. First, we create an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) using an EBS snapshot, not EBS volume. Then we could launch a new instance based on the AMI. As shown below, when we are trying to create a new AMI...