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AWS Move Instance to Another Zone

December 23, 2021

Here’s how to move an AWS instance to another zone.

Stop the instance first.

aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0

aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0

Create an AMI image.

aws ec2 create-image \
--instance-id i-1234567890abcdef0 \
--name "my-ami" \
--description "my-ami"

aws ec2 create-image \ --instance-id i-1234567890abcdef0 \ --name "my-ami" \ --description "my-ami"

Create EC2 instance using Terraform. The contents of main.tf.

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source = "hashicorp/aws"
    }
  }
}
provider "aws" {
  profile = "default"
  region  = "us-east-1"
}
resource "aws_instance" "ulysses" {
  ami                           = "ami-1234567890abcdef0"
  key_name                      = "servers"
  iam_instance_profile          = "machine-role"
  instance_type                 = "t3.micro"
  subnet_id                     = "subnet-1234567890abcdef0"
  security_groups               = ["sg-1234567890abcdef0", "sg-1234567890abcdef1"]
  tags = {
    Name = "moving-instance"
    tag1 = "test1"
    tag2 = "test2"
  }
}

terraform { required_providers { aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws" } } } provider "aws" { profile = "default" region = "us-east-1" } resource "aws_instance" "ulysses" { ami = "ami-1234567890abcdef0" key_name = "servers" iam_instance_profile = "machine-role" instance_type = "t3.micro" subnet_id = "subnet-1234567890abcdef0" security_groups = ["sg-1234567890abcdef0", "sg-1234567890abcdef1"] tags = { Name = "moving-instance" tag1 = "test1" tag2 = "test2" } }

Launch it.

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply

terraform init terraform plan terraform apply

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