Move Amazon EC2 AMIs between regions via web-interface?

Question

Any easy way to move and custom AMI image between regions? (tokyo -> singapore)

I know you can mess up with API and S3 to get it done, but there there any easier way

Answer 1

Ylastic allows you to move EBS backed linux images between regions.

Its $25 or $50 per month but it looks like you can evaluate it for a week.

Answer 2

Amazon have just announced support for this functionality in this blog post. Note that the answer from dmohr relates to copying EBSs, not AMIs.

In case the blog post is unavailable, quoting the relevant parts:

To use AMI Copy, simply select the AMI to be copied from within the AWS Management Console, choose the destination region, and start the copy. AMI Copy can also be accessed via the EC2 Command Line Interface or EC2 API as described in the EC2 User’s Guide. Once the copy is complete, the new AMI can be used to launch new EC2 instances in the destination region.

Answer 3

I just did this using a script on CloudyScripts, worked fantastically: https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/5 (and it's free).

Answer 4

You can do it using Eric's post: http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ami-copy

Answer 5

I think that is now outdated by ec2-bundle-vol and ec2-migrate-image, BTW you can also take a look at this Perl script by Lincoln D. Stein: http://search.cpan.org/~lds/VM-EC2/bin/migrate-ebs-image.pl

Usage:

$ migrate-ebs-image.pl --from us-east-1 --to ap-southeast-1 ami-123456