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Announcing AMI Copy for Amazon EC2

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Kind of funny, just yesterday someone was having a moan about the difficulty of transferring ANI images from one region to another (and the work-around they have deployed, using the Amazon API and a EC2 instance).

Guess this is good news for them. I'm surprised it took this long for something as core as AMIs across different availability zones to happen. I guess there wasn't a lot of money in it.

It is absolutely ridiculous that it took them this long to do this. It should have been available on the first day there were different regions.

The AWS strategy is to release the bare minimum and then announce little fixes as if they were new products. It's gotten to the point where they release a product in one region, and then later announce availability in other regions with almost as much fanfare.

It detracts from the interesting work AWS is actually doing, I think, when they crowd it out with this stuff. But we should do our bit by not upvoting their sillier announcements...

Has anyone hear worked for Amazon on AWS?

They work on some really interesting stuff over there and seem to deliver at quite a rate.

Would be interested in hearing more about what it is like.

It's very, very fun :)

And we're hiring!

Any specific JD on the careers site ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304977 ;)

It is a blast! Come join us and help increase the rate we deliver :)

What I really want is an AMI copy from EC2 to <xyz> provider and vise versa :).

This is huge for people who runs multi-region servers. I needed this last summer but had to use an alternative solution.

Very useful feature. Could always do it with scripts(like cloudyscripts) but it seemed janky rsyncing files over.

Here's a scripted solution to do apparently the same thing that I ran across earlier this week: https://bitbucket.org/edowd/gentoo_bootstrap/src/045c4dbdb9c...

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.

Finally!

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