How to safely upgrade an Amazon EC2 instance from t1.micro to large?

gandil picture gandil · May 5, 2011 · Viewed 147.6k times · Source

I have an Amazon EC2 micro instance (t1.micro). I want to upgrade this instance to large. This is our production environment, so what is the best and risk-free way to do this?

Is there any step by step guide to do this?

Answer

Marcel de Castilho picture Marcel de Castilho · Nov 23, 2011

Using AWS Management Console:

  • Right-Click on the instance
    • Instance Lifecycle > Stop
    • Wait...
    • Instance Management > Change Instance Type