Transfer AWS instance with different region and different account

Check the speed of each region on http://www.cloudping.info/. AccountA: has the original instance in N. Virginia AccountB: will create instance in Singapore

Steps

1. Login https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home with AccountA;
2. Find your EC2 instance in N. Virginia
3. Select your instance and click Actions > Image > Create Image;
4. Set the only required field Image name, let others default, click Create Image;
5. Wait for a moment, you will find AMI and Snapshot created;
6. Click IMAGES > AMIs > Actions > Copy AMI;
7. Select Asia Pacific (Singapore) in Destination region and click Copy AMI;
8. Wait for a moment and change your region to  Singapore , find the new Image under IMAGES > AMIs, copy the AMI ID;
9. Click Actions > Modify Image Permissions;
10. Set AccountB number and click Add Permission to make this Image available to AccountB;
11. Logout AccountA and login AccountB;
12. Change your region to Singapore, move to EC2 page and click Launch Instance;
13. Search the copied AMI ID under Community AMIs;
14. that’s all.