How to create copy of an EBS volume snapshot

Login to the AWS Management console and navigate to EC2 dashboard. Choose ‘Snapshots’ under ‘Elastic Block Store’ on the left pane. Select the snapshot that you would like to copy and right click on it to view the actions menu. Choose ‘Copy’.

Choose the Destination Region that you would like to copy the snapshot to. Provide a description for the new snapshot. Optionally, enable Encryption if you would like to encrypt the copy and choose ‘Copy’.

You will see the confirmation message as below.

On the snapshots dashboard, you will see the newly created snapshot. Snapshot is ready for usage once the status changes to ‘completed’.

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