EC2 Instance Cloning

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Is it possible to clone a EC2 instance data and all

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There is no explicit Clone button  Basically what you do is create an image  or snapshot of an existing EC2 instance  and then spin up a new instance using that snapshot   First create an image from an existing EC2 instance       Check your snapshots list to see if the process is completed  This usually takes around 20 minutes depending on how large your instance drive is       Then  you need to create a new instance and use that image as the AMI

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Nowadays it is even easier to clone the machine with EBS-backed instances released a while ago  This is how we do it in BitNami Cloud Hosting  Basically you just take a snapshot of the instance which can be used later to launch a new server  You can do it either using AWS console  saving the EBS-backed instance as AWS AMI  or using the EC2 API tools    create a snapshot with ec2-create-snapshot and then launch an instance from a snapshot   Cloning the instance is nothing else but creating the backup and then launching a new server based on that  You can find bunch of articles out there describing this problem  try to find the info about  how to      backup or resize the whole EC2 instance  for example this blog is a really good place to start  alestic com

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You can use AWS API or console UI to create an AMI Amazon Machine Image  of your running instance  You can specify to reboot the instance when create your AMI  Then you can use AWS API or console UI to launch more instances with the AMI you created

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To Answer your question  now AWS make cloning real easy see Launch instance from your Existing Instance   On the EC2 Instances page  select the instance you want to use Choose Actions  and then Launch More Like This  Review  amp  Launch   This will take the existing instance as a Template for the new once   or you can also take a snapshot of the existing volume and use the snapshot with the AMI  existing one  which you ping during your instance launch

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The easier way is through the web management console    go to the instance  select the instance and click on instance action  create image   Once you have an image you can launch another cloned instance  data and all

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You can do it very easily with a Cloud Management software -like enStratus  RightScale or Scalr  disclaimer  I work there   With the cloned farm you can     Create a snapshot or a pre-made image to launch another day  Duplicate your configuration to test it before production

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You can make an AMI of an existing instance  and then launch other instances using that AMI

[amazon-ec2] EC2 Instance Cloning

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