It 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

It 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.