Amazon is attempting to lock in their customers into their EC2 offering. I'm going to show you one way how to break that lock-in.
Amazon purposely makes it as difficult as possible to migrate virtual machines off of EC2 and onto other formats. AWS REQUIRES that you invoke their command-line tools for export, and even then, they put multiple bureaucratic restrictions in place on their export, such that it is next to impossible to get your disk images off of Amazon.
Especially if you...
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Amazon purposely makes it as difficult as possible to migrate virtual machines off of EC2 and onto other formats. AWS REQUIRES that you invoke their command-line tools for export, and even then, they put multiple bureaucratic restrictions in place on their export, such that it is next to impossible to get your disk images off of Amazon.
Especially if you...
Read more