AWS Copy Snapshot to another Region

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

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:

{
    "SnapshotId": "snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}

AWS Copy Snapshot to another Region

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