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I am trying to export my Amazon EC2 instance to a my S3 bucket as a VMware image.
I have successfully set up Amazon CLI tools, added my credentials and can run commands.
I am using http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ExportingEC2Instances.html as documentation but it is not working as expected. For one thing, this documentation states that "ec2-create-instance-export-task" is the init command to export an instance, but it is actually "aws ec2 create-instance-export-task" as I found after some fiddling. Also, the instance id argument appears to be "--instance-id" rather than "instance_id".
I have not had any luck finding up to date documentation as to how I need to enter the other parameters like "target_environment" and "s3_bucket", but I can tell you that doing what is in Amazon's docs isn't working for me.
Has anyone done this recently who can help? Am I missing something?
HelloWorld
Posted 2014-09-18T05:41:13.313
Reputation: 251
The doc you provided is referring to the 'aws' command which is found in the AWSCLI, not the same as the ec2-api-tools. Amazon should really provide the difference between the two. – Clocker – 2015-01-30T14:22:09.953
@Clocker you are right - the ec2-api-tools package is practically deprecated and you should stick to the newer AWS CLI. Notice in https://aws.amazon.com/items/351?externalID=351 that the last update happened in July 2015.
– Amos Shapira – 2016-12-21T22:39:39.747