{"id":730,"date":"2016-02-15T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:34:12","slug":"migrate-ec2-instance-to-another-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/migrate-ec2-instance-to-another-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrate EC2 Instance To Another Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may wish to migrate AWS Resources from one region to another for a variety of reasons. In particular, if a new region is available closer to your user base, you may wish to locate various services geographically closer to those users.<\/p>\n<p>This blog explains a manual solution for moving your stack from a server running in one EC2 region to a different new region.To better understand this, suppose you have an EC2 instance running in &#8220;EU (Ireland)&#8221; region and you want to migrate it to &#8220;US East (N. Virginia)&#8221; region. These are the following simple steps which should be followed in order to migrate EC2 instance to a new region :-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Region1:\u00a0EU (Ireland)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, change the instance state from running to stop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-732\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_2.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2\" width=\"979\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create an AMI of the instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-733\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-733\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_1.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" width=\"957\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select the AMI created. From the Actions panel, click on copy AMI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_4.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-734\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_4.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_4\" width=\"972\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Choose the destination region i.e.\u00a0US East (N. Virginia) in our scenario and then finally\u00a0click on\u00a0copy AMI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_8.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-738\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_8.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_8\" width=\"976\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Region2:\u00a0US East (N. Virginia)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find copy of AMI created in the AMIs section of EC2 instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_6.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-735\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_6.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_6\" width=\"985\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch a new instance from the selected AMI by simply hitting the launch button. Specify the configuration details of the new EC2 instance, then click on Review and Launch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_7.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-736\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_7.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_7\" width=\"975\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hence, you&#8217;ve successfully migrated your instance to a different new region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/contact\/\">IN CASE OF ANY QUERY, PLEASE CONTACT US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may wish to migrate AWS Resources from one region to another for a variety <a class=\"text-primary\" title=\"read more\" href=\"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/migrate-ec2-instance-to-another-region\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - 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