Q24

Question 24. How To Migrate An Instance To Another Availability Zone ?

Answer :

You can migrate your EC2 instance from one Availability Zone to another.

Following are the steps to migrate an Instance to another Availability Zone:

• Create an AMI from the running instance
• Launch an instance from the AMI that you just created, specify the new Availability Zone
• You can use the same instance type as the original instance, or select a new instance type
• If the original instance has an associated Elastic IP address, then associate it with the new instance
• If the original instance is a Reserved Instance, change the Availability Zone for your reservation