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VM Import/Export

Overview

In this lab, you will practice VM Import/Export, an exercise that builds on the knowledge from previous labs. To complete this lab, you need to have the AWS CLI and a virtualization environment (such as VMware Workstation) installed on your computer.

VM Import/Export

VM Import/Export is a feature that allows you to import virtual machine (VM) images from your on-premises environment to Amazon EC2 and export them back to your on-premises environment. This capability enables you to:

  • Migrate existing applications and workloads to Amazon EC2
  • Create a backup of your on-premises VMs in Amazon EC2
  • Enable disaster recovery scenarios

You can use VM Import/Export with no additional service charges (you only pay for the EC2 instances and Amazon S3 storage you use).

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Amazon S3 is an object storage service designed to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. An S3 bucket is a container for objects stored in Amazon S3. You can store an object up to 5 TB in size, and there is no limit to the number of objects you can store in a bucket.