Posted On: Mar 2, 2025
Amazon EC2 announces the general availability of Time-based Copy for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Similar to Time-based Copy for EBS snapshots , this feature enables customers to meet their compliance objectives by ensuring that AMIs are copied within and across Amazon Web Services Regions within a specified duration.
Prior to today, customers could not predict or control the duration of their AMI copy operations, making it challenging for them to meet their recovery time objectives for disaster recovery and compliance purposes. Now with this capability, customers can specify a desired completion duration, ranging from 15 minutes to 48 hours, for individual AMI copy requests. Customers can also monitor their AMI Copy operations via EventBridge and the new SnapshotCopyBytesTransferred CloudWatch metric, available by default at a 1-minute frequency for no additional charge.
This feature is now available in all Amazon Web Services Regions, including Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD through Amazon CLI, SDKs, and Amazon Web Services Console. For pricing information, please visit the EBS pricing page. To learn more, see the technical documentation for Time-based Copy for AMIs.