I know this is a little late for your case but you can migrate snapshots from 1 region to another. We spend sunday moving from US-East 1 to US-West 1 and took 2

I know this is a little late for your case but you can migrate snapshots from 1 region to another. We spend sunday moving from US-East 1 to US-West 1 and took 2 hours to setup our entire infrastructure consisting of 20 servers & about 180 GB database There are several options 1. Manually - http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ami-copy http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ami-copy 2. Automatically via Scripts a) migrate-ebs-image.pl - http://search.cpan.org/~lds/VM-EC2/bin/migrate-ebs-image.pl http://search.cpan.org/~lds/VM-EC2/bin/migrate-ebs-image.pl b) CloudyScript Migrate SnapShot - https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/4 https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/4 c) CloudyScript Migrate AMI - https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/5 https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/5 3. Commercial Services a) http://ylastic.com/ http://ylastic.com/ b) RightScale * ylastic is really cheap at $25 / month * I used the perl script migrate-ebs-image.pl, super simple to install and use. * CloudyScripts has open sourced their Ruby gem so you can build on top of it. They also have a free web form you can just use (but may not be secure enough). But you can launch their AMI in your own instance which should be secure Hope that helps for next time!