How to safely upgrade an Amazon EC2 instance from t1 micro to large

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I have an Amazon EC2 micro instance  t1 micro   I want to upgrade this instance to large  This is our production environment  so what is the best and risk-free way to do this   Is there any step by step guide to do this

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Create AMI -  Boot AMI on large instance   More info http   docs amazonwebservices com AmazonEC2 gsg 2006-06-26 creating-an-image html  You can do this all from the admin console too at aws amazon com

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From my experience  the way I do it is create a snapshot of your current image  then once its done you ll see it as an option when launching new instances   Simply launch it as a large instance at that point   This is my approach if I do not want any downtime i e  production server  because this solution only takes a server offline only after the new one is up and running I also use it to add new machines to my clusters by using this approach to only add new machines    If Downtime is acceptable then see Marcel Castilho s answer

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Using AWS Management Console    Right-Click on the instance  Instance Lifecycle   Stop Wait    Instance Management   Change Instance Type

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Use the AWS EC2 console  not ElasticFox   First Way    Create a new AMI of the instance  Launch it   Alternative Way    Make a snapshot of the disk Launch a large EBS instance with the same AMI type  please note that at this point the disk will contain the data that was present when this AMI was created  not your latest changes  Once is fully booted  stop the new instance Detach the root volume from the stopped instance Create a virtual disk from the snapshot created before in the same availability zone of the new instance Attach the root volume to  dev sda1   Start the new instance again

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Using the AWS Management Console   Go to  Volumes  and create a Snapshot of your instance s volume  Go to  Snapshots  and select  Create Image from Snapshot   Go to  AMIs  and select  Launch Instance  and choose your  Instance Type  etc

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