Sen, Since I didn't have much time in creating the AMI to begin with, it was looking like recreating it would be about the same effort as moving between regions. But I wanted to learn more about AWS. And copying AMIs between regions is necessary to setup cross-region fault tolerance.
Ytastic does the copy in one click. I tried Cloudy Scripts ( https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/5) but it kept throwing an error. This particular application is fairly small. Traffic is measured in 10s of unique IPs per hour but it is processing-heavy. At most, it will be two or three instances in a VPC maybe with replication to a second region if a customer needs higher availability. They have been paying for full managed hosting on an under-powered VPS. They aren't big enough to warrant a full-time sysadmin. What I want to know is if anyone is using an add-on manager for AWS, like Ytastic, RightScale or scalr? -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Sen Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > This maybe a stupid question but, why not re-create the AMI using the > company's account? > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Eric Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am helping a boutique geo company move their web architecture from a >> managed VPS to Amazon Web Services. Personally, I haven't done much more >> than set up test servers and play with Hadoop in AWS. Does anyone have >> general hints on tools, techniques and best practices? >> >> For instance, I just had to move an AMI from my personal account to the >> company account across AWS regions. Creating the AMI and sharing it was >> easy. Moving across regions was a total PITA. I ended up using Ylastic.com >> which is pretty cool but seems like overkill for this company's needs to >> pay for on-going. But the tech-fu level of the team is limited, so >> something like Ylastic may be a necessity. >> >> -Eric >> >> -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- >> Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> > > > -- > Sen Xu > Ph.D Candidate > Department of Geography, GeoVISTA Center, 302 Walker Building > Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 > http://senxu.net > >
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