One of my AWS EC2 instances would be a better fit for Lightsail (and more cost-effective). Is there a way to create a Lightsail instance based from an EBS snapshot?
It seems that there is the ability to Export Amazon Lightsail snapshots to Amazon EC2, but I couldn't see any capability to go from EC2 to Lightsail.
Looks like you'll need to reload/reconfigure a Lightsail instance from scratch.
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I need to move a couple of EC2 instances to Lightsail.
There are some ways of exporting Lightsail->EC2 using snapshot image but cannot find any info on how to do it the other way around EC2->Lightsail.
Is the migration EC2->Lightsail possible?
No, you can only migrate lightsail instances to EC2.
Try to create new Lightsail instance as per your requirement and then points IP address. last steps is terminate your old EC2 instance.
I created a WordPress app using Lightsail. It says it was created in Frankfurt Zone. However, I cannot see this instance in EC2 console. I want to create a Load Balancer for that app and add certificates, but I can't cause I don't see this instance on the list. Any ideas where can I find this Lightsail instance in EC2 console?
AWS Lightsail not shown in EC2 console, it's the main difference between the Lightsail and EC2, If you want to have more control on your EC2, so you should run EC2 instance instead of cheaper version Lightsail.
For more info about the Lighsail read the FAQ on the AWS website:
https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/
Also, you can use Lightsail load balancer instead of standard ELB on AWS, for more info read the following doc:
https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/features/load-balancing/
I am studying for my AWS certificate. I SSH into an Amazon Linux EC2.
When I type man aws or man ec2 I don't get any results.
I have seen the AWS CLI website but I wonder why there aren't man pages for AWS.
You invoke it through CLI. For example:
$ aws ec2 help
for help on AWS CLI ec2 commands.
Output:
NAME
ec2 -
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable computing
capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Using Amazon EC2 elim-
inates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and
deploy applications faster.
AVAILABLE COMMANDS
o accept-reserved-instances-exchange-quote
o accept-vpc-peering-connection
o allocate-address
If you want help on subcommands:
$ aws ec2 create-image help
NAME
create-image -
DESCRIPTION
Creates an Amazon EBS-backed AMI from an Amazon EBS-backed instance
that is either running or stopped.
If you customized your instance with instance store volumes or EBS vol-
umes in addition to the root device volume, the new AMI contains block
device mapping information for those volumes. When you launch an
instance from this new AMI, the instance automatically launches with
those additional volumes.
I wanted to migrate my EC2 instance which is in a VPC to a classic EC2 instance.
Is this possible?
What are the steps I need to follow?
Per the Amazon Documentation
If your account supports EC2 Classic you can make an AMI of the existing instance, and launch that AMI into EC2 Classic.
To find out whether your account supports EC2 Classic look under AWS Management Console -> EC2 Service, under Supported Platforms.
I'm studying RDS, and I have a question.
I'm reading in some places that rds relies on the ec2 infrastructure. But I don't understand why, what is the relation with rds and ec2?
I know that after we create an rds instance we can connect to rds instance from a ec2 instance, but what is the other relation?
For example, when we create a RDS instance we need to choose a db intance class, for example "db.t1.micro", but when we create an rds instance we dont create an ec2 instance...
So what I'm thinking is that maybe rds relies on ec2 infrastructure, because when we create an rds instance we are using the same ec2 infrastructure to create an instance but in this case for RDS? Is that it?
Yes you are correct, I think what they are really saying is that RDS instances run on the same infrastructure as the EC2 instances you spinup and use yourself.
When you start an RDS instance, it runs on an EC2 instance, but you have no access to that underlying instance it is controlled and managed by the RDS group/system.