stop the instance before taking a snapshot
copy the snapshot to a different region option to ecrypt the copy
creating a copy of the snapshot and tramsitting to another region copy the snapshot to eu(london)
change the region to london actions and create an image off of this snapshot
use this ami to boot our ec2 instances from root volume will be encrypted
launch is outside of free tier select m3 medium restriction to m3 and c3 this is outside of free tier select m3 medium
add a storage root device volume is encrypted this is becuase copied snapshot we have the ami market place purchase ami rent an ami by the hour palo alto networks firewall 1.28 an hour .10 an hour
understand that they wont be encrypted at rest encryption keys held in your own account
terminate the instance wont need it action instance state
instance state terminate
go into ami's and deregister amis
delete your snapshots
what have we learned create a snapshot that serves as root device stop the instance snapshots of encrypted volumes are encrypted automatically volumes restored from encrypted are encrypted as well share snapshots only if encrypted
share with other aws accounts or make them public use amis for? install apache configure the way you want it base web code
create a snapshot of that base image
boot webservers from there
dont need to copy your webcode over
use amazon machine images
learning how to create snapshots
instances from those snapshots