How to copy an AMI to another region using AWS CLI

Question

Hi Team,

I have created one customized AMI in AWS. I want to copy the AMI to another region using AWS CLI. Can anyone tell me, how can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can copy an AMI from the specified source region to the current Region. You need to specify the destination Region by using its endpoint when making the request. The following example copies the specified AMI from the us-east-1 region to the ap-northeast-1 region.

$ aws ec2 copy-image --source-image-id ami-5731123e --source-region us-east-1 --region ap-northeast-1 --name "My server"