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technology and computing web hostingHow do I move an instance to another Availability Zone?
Moving an EC2 Instance to a Different Availability Zone
- Shutdown / stop the instance.
- Right-click the instance and select Create Image to make an AMI from the instance.
- Go to the AMI page, right-click on the new AMI and select Launch Instance.
- In the new instance settings, choose a specific (different) availability zone.
People also ask, how can an instance be copied to another region?
Tutorial: AWS / EC2 - Copy an AMI from a region to another
- Step 1: Connect to your AWS console. Go to AWS console.
- Step 2: Connect to Ireland region.
- Step 3: Go to EC2 dashboard.
- Step 4: Find the public AMI. Click on AMIs.
- Step 5: Open copy AMI wizard. Right click on instance.
- Step 6: Start AMI copy.
- Step 7: Connect to the new region.
- Step 8: Find the new AMI ID.
Also question is, where is availability zone in ec2 instance?
Resolution
- Open the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) console.
- From the navigation bar, view the options in the Region selector.
- On the navigation pane, choose EC2 Dashboard.
- In the Service Health section, view the list of Availability Zones under Availability Zone Status.
Sharing an AMI (Console)
- In the navigation pane, choose AMIs.
- Select your AMI in the list, and then choose Actions, Modify Image Permissions.
- Specify the AWS account number of the user with whom you want to share the AMI in the AWS Account Number field, then choose Add Permission.