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AWS CLI Lightsail

Get instance details

aws lightsail get-instance --instance-name your-server

Get instance state

aws lightsail get-instance-state --instance-name your-server

Create a snapshot

aws lightsail create-instance-snapshot \
--instance-snapshot-name your-server-new-snapshot-201905192200 \
--instance-name your-server

Create disk from snapshot

aws lightsail create-disk-from-snapshot \
--disk-name your-server-new-boot-disk \
--disk-name your-server-new-snapshot-201905192200 \
--availability-zone us-east-1a
--size-in-gb 50

Attach Disk

aws lightsail attach-disk \
--disk-name your-server-new-boot-disk \
--instance-name your-server \
--disk-path /dev/sda1

Create instance from snapshot

aws lightsail create-instance-snapshot \
--instance-snaphot-name your-server-new-snapshot-201905192200
--instance-name your-server

Attach Static IP Address

aws lightsail attach-static-ip \
--static-ip-name your-ip-name \
--instance-name your-server

GCP Change VPC of Instance

The following are steps on how to change the network of an instance from one VPC to another. This is assuming you want to keep the same server name, but will need to make a network change. Unfortunately, changing networks will require creating a new instance. The following are the steps to make that change.

  1. Keep track of all the disks.
  2. Keep all disks including boot.
  3. Stop the instance.
  4. Create an image of the boot drive. Wait for it to complete.
  5. Create a similar instance, but do not execute.
  6. Make the network changes. Save the GCloud CLI command.
  7. Delete the instance.
  8. Run the saved command from step 4. This creates a new instance.
  9. Stop the instance.
  10. Detach the boot disk.
  11. Attach all the other disks.
  12. Boot the instance.

Steps to Encrypt Volumes

Here the steps to encrypt an unencrypted volume.

  1. Take a snapshot of the unencrypted volume.
  2. Make a copy of that snapshot and turn on encryption.
  3. Create a volume of the encrypted snapshot.
  4. Stop the instance.
  5. Detach the original unencrypted volume from the instance.
  6. Attach the newly created encrypted volume to the instance.
  7. Start the instance.

AWS CLI

# CREATE A SNAPSHOT
aws ec2 create-snapshot \
--volume-id vol-1234567890abcdef0 \
--description "This is my snapshot"
 
# COPY SNAPSHOT
aws ec2 copy-snapshot \
--source-region us-west-2 --source-snapshot-id snap-066877671789bd71b \
--region us-east-1 --description "This is my copied snapshot."
 
# CREATE A VOLUME
aws ec2 create-volume \
--region us-east-1 --availability-zone us-east-1a \
--snapshot-id snap-066877671789bd71b --volume-type io1 --iops 1000
 
# STOP AN INSTANCE
aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0
 
# DETACH A VOLUME
aws ec2 detach-volume --volume-id vol-1234567890abcdef0
 
# ATTACH A VOLUME
aws ec2 attach-volume --volume-id vol-1234567890abcdef0 \
--instance-id i-01474ef662b89480 --device /dev/sdf
 
# START AN INSTANCE
aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0