Recently I need to migrate my infrastructure from Tokyo to Singapore. According to the information I gathered from AWS 201 course, it’s a little troublesome to migrate AWS AMI between regions.
As Copying EBS Boot AMIs Between EC2 Regions demostrated, we need to mount ebs for each regions and rsync them, than we register the ebs as AMI; Also there’s CloudyScript, it’s a online tool that does these steps for you.
After some study, I found that it’s not necessary now. Amazon announced EBS Snapshot Copy last December. Although you can’t migrate AMI but we could do so just for some more steps.