asily migrate from your on-premises virtualization infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. Today we are adding the next element to this service. You now have the ability to export previously imported EC2 instances back to your on-premises environment.

You can initiate and manage the export with the latest version of the EC2 command line (API) tools. Download and install the tools, and then export the instance of your choice like this:
ec2-create-instance-export-task –e vmware -b NAME-OF-S3-BUCKET INSTANCE-ID

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In a previous article I described how to run an EBS boot AMI with a larger root disk size than the default. That’s fine if you know the size you want before running the instance, but what if you have an EC2 instance already running and you need to increase the size of its root disk without running a different instance?

As long as you are ok with a little down time on the EC2 instance (few minutes), it is possible to change out the root EBS volume with a larger copy, without needing to start a new instance.

defined the tools and how they are used