How to copy a snapshot in AWS from the command line

Question

Hi Guys,

I have one snapshot in the Mumbai region. I want to copy the snapshot in a different region. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

The following copy-snapshot example command copies the specified snapshot from the us-west-2 Region to the us-east-1 Region and adds a short description.

aws ec2 copy-snapshot \
    --region us-east-1 \
    --source-region us-west-2 \
    --source-snapshot-id snap-066877671789bd71b \
    --description "This is my copied snapshot."