How to copy an AMI in a different region using Ansible Playbook

Question

Hi Team,

I have one AMI in AWS. I want to copy the AMI in a different region. How can I do that using Ansible Playbook?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

Ansible has one module to copy AMI in different regions. You can use the below code in your Ansible Playbook.

# Basic AMI Copy
- ec2_ami_copy:
    source_region: us-east-1
    region: eu-west-1
    source_image_id: ami-xxxxxxx