The SecludIT Team is proud to announce that CloudyScripts collection of tools to manage and automate Clouds Infrastructure Copy AMI and Copy Snapshot for Amazon EC2 have been improved.
Copy AMI from one region to another
After our users’ request in order to support Amazon EC2 Linux AMIs (pre-configured, templated image to get up and running immediately) using the EXT4 filesystem for their root partition and their own kernel through Amazon PV-Grub loader, we decided to add these features to CloudyScripts. While adding support for new kernel, we also add the detection of /dev/xvdX device node while mapping to /dev/sdX block device in Amazon EC2 Console.
New features:
- Support of EXT4 and XFS linux filesystems
- Amazon Kernel Image (AKI) mapping between regions
As a results of this, we have fully automated the HowTo we wrote a few time ago on Copy EBS-basked AMI between Amazon EC2 regions.
Using CloudyScripts Copy AMI scripts, you can now move the vast majority of Amazon EC2 Linux AMIs to any Amazon EC2 Region.
Graphical User Interface
NB: CloudyScripts does not yet support BTRFS which is, at this time, under heavy development.
Copy Snapshot from one region to another
As a result of the our users choosing AMIs with EXT4 and XFS filesystems, the support of EXT4 and XFS filesystem has been added to the Snapshot Cloudyscript. As well, we added the detection of /dev/xvdX device node while mapping to /dev/sdX block device in Amazon EC2 Console.
New feature:
- Support of the EXT4 and XFS linux filesystems
Using CloudyScripts Copy Snapshot, you can now move the vast majority of Amazon EC2 Linux Snapshot among any Amazon EC2 Regions.
Graphical User Interface
NB: I was wondering, what do you think of creating a CloudyScripts for automatically registering an Amazon EC2 Snapshot? Does it seem helpful to you?
Security
In terms of security we strongly recommend to create temporary Amazon EC2 Credentials trough AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and to delete them once the task is done. We have explained how to do so, using Amazon command line tools in a precedent article: ReadOnly credentials for Amazon EC2.
Another things that must not be forgotten, is to close the specific SSH (TCP port 22). Except, if you are not using your default Amazon EC2 SecurityGroups, you must restrict administrative access to your Amazon EC2 infrastructure. Read more on Risk of publicly opened port.
References
AWS Blog: Enabling your own Linux Kernels
AWS Documentation: Use your own kernel with Amazon EC2
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Filed under: AWS, Cloud Computing, Amazon EC2, AMI, AWS, Cloudy_Scripts, copy, EBS, Snapshot
Sergio Loureiro
Matthias Jung
Frederic Donnat
Cloudy_Scripts:
Elastic Detector
Are you updating the Download snapshot to support EXT4 and
if so when will it be available?
Hi Barry,
We are currently working on adding support for ext4 file system in Download snapshot script. We hope to release it before the end of the week.
/fred