已安装所有内容的克隆EC2实例

Question

I received a amazon email saying that i have to terminate my instance because of attacks but i worked really hard to install and setup everything on the instance.

I've tried to create a image and on the AMI create a new instance and launch another instance like this. but it not worked.

So how can i create another instance with the stuff that i installed on the current instance?

By the way have some way to copy everything on the instance?

Someone could please spare some hint?

thank's

Answer 1

If the instance security is compromised you should really start from scratch.

But if you need to access data from the older instance you can create a Volume snapshot and then attach it to the new instance.

I know it's annoying to setup everything again, so I keep a shell script to configure everything remotely and I run it each time I create a new instance. If you were trying to setup a LAMP server, you could write an install.sh script with something like:

#!/bin/sh

SERVER_IP= ...
SERVER_ADDR=ec2-user@$SERVER_IP
SERVER_PEM=/../../key.pem

sudo ssh -t -t $SERVER_ADDR -i $SERVER_PEM <<-EOF1
     sudo yum update -y
     sudo yum install -y httpd24 php56 mysql55-server php56-mysqlnd
EOF1