Importing an image as an Amazon EC2-compatible AMI with AWS OpsHub

To upload a snapshot to Amazon S3

• To create an S3 bucket, see Creating Amazon S3 Storage.

  To upload a snapshot to an S3 bucket, see Uploading Files to Amazon S3 Storage.

To import the snapshot to your device

1. Open the AWS OpsHub application.

2. In the Start computing section on the dashboard, choose Get started. Or, choose the Services menu at the top, and then choose Compute (EC2) to open the Compute page. All your compute resources appear in the Resources section.

3. Choose the Snapshots tab to see all the snapshots that have been imported to your device. The image file in Amazon S3 is a .raw file that is imported to your device as a snapshot. You can filter by snapshot ID or the state of the snapshot to find specific snapshots. You can choose a snapshot ID to see details of that snapshot.

4. Choose the snapshot that you want to import, and choose Import snapshot to open the Import snapshot page.

5. For Device, choose the IP address of the Snow Family device that you want to import to.

6. For Import description and Snapshot description, enter a description for each.

7. In the Role list, choose a role to use for the import. Snowball Edge use VM Import/Export to import snapshots. AWS assumes this role and uses it to import the snapshot on your behalf. If you don't have a role configured on your AWS Snowball Edge, open the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM in AWS OpsHub where you can create a local IAM role. The role also needs a policy that has the required VM Import/Export permissions to perform the import. You must attach this policy to the role. For more details on this please refer to Using IAM Locally.

   The following is an example of the policy.

   {
      "Version":"2012-10-17",
      "Statement":[
         {
            "Effect":"Allow",
            "Principal":{
               "Service":"vmie.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action":"sts:AssumeRole"
         }
      ]
   }

   Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

   The role you create should have minimum permissions to access Amazon S3 The following is example of a minimum policy.

   {
      "Version":"2012-10-17",
      "Statement":[
         {
            "Effect":"Allow",
            "Action":[
               "s3:GetBucketLocation",
               "s3:GetObject",
               "s3:ListBucket",
               "s3:GetMetadata"
            ],
            "Resource":[
               "arn:aws:s3:::import-snapshot-bucket-name",
               "arn:aws:s3:::import-snapshot-bucket-name/*"
            ]
         }
      ]
   }

8. Choose Browse S3 and choose the S3 bucket that contains the snapshot that you want to import. Choose the snapshot, and choose Submit. The snapshot begins to download onto your device. You can choose the snapshot ID to see the details. You can cancel the import process from this page.

To register an image imported as a snapshot

1. Open the AWS OpsHub application.

2. In the Start computing section on the dashboard, choose Get started. Or, choose the Services menu at the top, and then choose Compute (EC2) to open the Compute page. All your compute resources appear in the Resources section.

3. Choose the Images tab. You can filter the images by name, ID, or state to find a specific image.

4. Choose the image that you want to register, and choose Register image.

   

5. On the Register image page, provide a Name and Description.

6. For Root volume, specify the name of the root device.

   In the Block device section, you can change the size of the volume and the volume type.

7. If you want the volume to be deleted when the instance is terminated, choose Delete on termination.

8. If you want to add more volumes, choose Add new volume.

9. When you are done, choose Submit.

• For more information, see Launching an Amazon EC2-compatible instance.