I just want to say, forcing folk to use volume snapshots instead of AMI is an awful, awful, awful idea. What is wrong with creating a backup of an ec2 image using AMIs? Is it because there is a way to make an AMI public?
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if you create copies of your ec2 machines by snapshot, to restore to new machine
-snap shot machine *drives* you'd like to copy
-convert snapshot to volume
-create ec2 machine, stop it
-throw away the root volume
-attach restored volume to /dev/sda1
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