Transferring or Copying AMI from one Amazon Region to Another

There is no direct way provided by Amazon to do this.. But this is certainly which can be done.. Here is how…:

Suppose you want to transfer an Amazon AMI from North America’s us-east-1 region to APAC region here is all you need to do:

NA region	Apac Region
	Create a new key pair and save it.
	Create a new small instance of Ubuntu AMI.
	Create a 15GiB Volume in same region
	Attach volume to new instance. e.g., ec2-attach-volume --region ap-southeast-1 -d /dev/sdh -i <instanceid> <volumeid>
	Login to the new instance and give proper rights to the new volume sudo chmod a+rw /dev/sdh
Spin an instance of AMI that you want to transfer to apac region
Login to this AMI and run following command to transfer data to new volume that we created in apac region.. sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 | ssh -i your-apac-key.pem public-dns-of-apac-instance dd of=/dev/sdh1 This is a binary transfer so it takes a hell lot of time.. doesn’t give any message etc.. so all you need to do is wait and get a coffee for yourself..
	Stop the instance and Detach both volumes from apac instance ec2-detach-volume --region ap-southeast-1 -d /dev/sdh -i <instanceid> <volumeid>
	Attach the new volume that we created to this instance
	Lastly Update the instance with: /etc/apt$ sudo vi sources.list :1,$s/us-east-1/ap-southeast-1/ :wq sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade and now you can create a new AMI of this Instance.. It will be exactly the same as the one in NA region.