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Hybrid Cloud for Developers
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

by Manoj Hirway
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Migrating a VM to AWS

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:

  1. Export the virtual machine as an image. Your virtual environment stores in VM a format such as vmdk, vhd, qcow2, and so on.
  2. Create an AWS S3 bucket in the region where you want your AMI to be located. ...
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