April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Consider a VM running on your local virtualized environment, be it OpenStack or any other platform. We can migrate it to AWS simply by getting its image and uploading it to an S3 bucket and then creating an AMI out of it.
The following diagram shows how this is done:

Let's see how we can migrate a VM from a local virtualized environment to the AWS cloud.
The following steps demonstrate the migration of a local VM to AWS: