EC2 - taking an EBS snapshot, saving to S3, and then launching instances from S3

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git-noob picture git-noob · Mar 16, 2010 · Viewed 23.2k times · Source

I like the convenience of taking an AMI snapshot - but ideally I do no want to pay for the volume to be attached to my running instance.

Is there a way to save a snapshot instance to S3 and then launch from S3 without attaching a volume to the running instance - gaining the convenience of snapshots - without the running costs?

Answer

Joshua Smith picture Joshua Smith · Mar 16, 2010

EBS snapshots are already persisted to S3 (http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/)
from ebs docs:

Amazon EBS also provides the ability to create point-in-time snapshots of volumes, which are persisted to Amazon S3. These snapshots can be used as the starting point for new Amazon EBS volumes, and protect data for long-term durability. The same snapshot can be used to instantiate as many volumes as you wish

and AMIs are also stored in S3.

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