AWS Copy Snapshot to another Region

If you need to copy a snapshot from one region to another, here’s the AWS CLI command.

<pre lang="bash">
aws ec2 copy-snapshot \
    --region us-east-1 \
    --source-region us-east-2 \
    --source-snapshot-id snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \
    --description "This is the DR snapshot copy"

Output:

<pre lang="bash">
{
    "SnapshotId": "snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}