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Is it possible to clone a EC2 instance data and all?

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you can make an AMI of an existing instance, and then launch other instances using that AMI.

Mike Sherov
How do I do that?
resonantmedia
and the data needs to be inside root partition (not on /mnt) or you can use EBS for data.
bhups
http://instantbadger.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-create-and-save-ami-image-from.html
Mike Sherov
use ami-tools, which provides ec2-bundle-vol, ec2-upload-bundle utilities. Then use ec2-register from ec2-api-tools for registering your ami with Amazon.
bhups
The problem is I can't SSH into this instance due to a problem with the keypair. Ideas?
resonantmedia
I'm not sure what to do about that at this point... sorry!
Mike Sherov