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Announcing AMI Copy for Amazon EC2
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- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoKind of funny, just yesterday someone was having a moan about the difficulty of transferring ANI images from one region to another (and the work-around they have deployed, using the Amazon API and a EC2 instance). Guess this is good news for them. I'm surprised it took this long for something as core as AMIs across different availability zones to happen. I guess there wasn't a lot of money in it.
- dkl 14y agoIt is absolutely ridiculous that it took them this long to do this. It should have been available on the first day there were different regions.
- justinsb 14y agoThe AWS strategy is to release the bare minimum and then announce little fixes as if they were new products. It's gotten to the point where they release a product in one region, and then later announce availability in other regions with almost as much fanfare. It detracts from the interesting work AWS is actually doing, I think, when they crowd it out with this stuff. But we should do our bit by not upvoting their sillier announcements...
- contingencies 14y agoHere's a scripted solution to do apparently the same thing that I ran across earlier this week: https://bitbucket.org/edowd/gentoo_bootstrap/src/045c4dbdb9c0daff286040cc01de84611dd4e32f/copy_ebs_across_region.sh?at=master https://bitbucket.org/edowd/gentoo_bootstrap/src/045c4dbdb9c...
- nmcfarl 14y agoIt looks like that sucker only runs if you have snapshots of the root disk to copy across regions. The script we use in house uses netcat and a pair of running EC2 instances, one in each region. All of the solutions I've seen, before this announcement, have had some serious limitations - so I'm rather happy to see this.
- benjaminwootton 14y agoHas anyone hear worked for Amazon on AWS? They work on some really interesting stuff over there and seem to deliver at quite a rate. Would be interested in hearing more about what it is like.
- skram 14y agoFinally!
- deepGem 14y agoWhat I really want is an AMI copy from EC2 to <xyz> provider and vise versa :).
- thecodemonkey 14y agoThis is huge for people who runs multi-region servers. I needed this last summer but had to use an alternative solution.
- adrr 14y agoVery useful feature. Could always do it with scripts(like cloudyscripts) but it seemed janky rsyncing files over.