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They provide pretty good tools already. If you leverage their API and S3 you can migrate AMI's and EBS's across regions quite effectively. Could the tools get b
by jimwalsh 14y ago
They provide pretty good tools already. If you leverage their API and S3 you can migrate AMI's and EBS's across regions quite effectively. Could the tools get better, yes. But it's not as hard as it is often made out to be.
- nmcfarl 14y agoI just did this Monday, and there is 0 support that I could find for moving ebs volumes cross region. I used netcat to push the data, which seems profoundly wasteful. I'd love to hear of an s3 based approach.
- jimwalsh 14y agoYou can use this, many people have reported it does well. I have not used it. https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/5 https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/5 You can also use the APIs to do that S3 copy I mentioned. Here are one of the many write ups of that technique. http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ami-copy http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ami-copy