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1.

Creating AMI and EBS


 A instance named (linux) is launched using (Amazon Linux 2 AMI).

 When the instance is launched, then to create AMI for linux,


 Click Actions
 Click Images and templates
 Choose Create Image
 A template of image information is opened when you click create image option. Then,
respective required field must be filled.
 Give image name and image description respectively
 Enable No-reboot option
 Allocate the size of EBs and add tags if necessary
 Click Create Image

Then, image is created by putting image name, image description and enable no reboot
respectively.

 Go to Images:
 In AMIs, the AMI we created will be shown with name, id status, etc.
2. A. EBS volume increase and mount on Amazon Linux2 AMI
 Amazon Linux2 AMI instance is launched and AMI is created as earlier respectively.
 Then, to modify the volume, go to EBS and choose the volume amount as per your wish
to increase the volume.
 It will take some time to modify volume as volume is increased.
 Then after some time, the volume state will be in use (optimizing) and the green light
status will be seen.
 To verify the file system for each volume, the instance is connected using the command

(df –h)

This is before extending the file system

 To check whether the volume has a partition that must be extended, use the command
(lsblk)

 The file can be extended using the following code.


(sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1)

We can see the changed: part about the information changed.


After that the size changed to 9.0G in /dev/xvda1 which was 8.0GB earlier.

B. EBS volume increase and mount on Ubuntu

 Ubuntu AMI instance is launched and AMI is created as earlier respectively.


 Then, to modify the volume, go to EBS and choose the volume amount as per your wish
to increase the volume.
 It will take some time to modify volume as volume is increased.
 Then after some time, the volume state will be in use (optimizing) and the green light
status will be seen.
 To verify the file system for each volume, the instance is connected using the command

(df –h)

This is before extending the file system

 To check whether the volume has a partition that must be extended, use the command
(lsblk)

 The file can be extended using the following code.


(sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1)
We can see the changed: part about the information changed.

After that the size changed to 9.0G in /dev/xvda1 which was 8.0GB earlier.

C. Migrate AMI from one region to another


 Launch instance as earlier and create AMI
 Go to AMIs section and click action dropdown
 Click copy AMI
 Choose Destination Region, name and description
 Choose encryption option if needed to encrypt EBS snapshots

D. Migrate AMI from one AWS account to another


 Launch instance as earlier and create AMI
 Go-to AMIs section and click action dropdown
 Modify Image Permission
 Give AWS account number of the person or other member and choose public or private
for now private is chosen and add permission and save
 Then go-to the other AWS account number and can view that AMI in the AMIs private
AMI section.

E. Migrate snapshot
 Launch instance as earlier and create AMI
 Go-to snapshot section and click action dropdown
 Click Modify Permission
 Give AWS account number of the person or other member and choose public or private
for now private is chosen and add permission and save
 Then go-to the other AWS account number and can view that snapshot in the private
snapshot section.

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