Copy Amazon Instance (windows) from US to EU

I was asked to copy a current instance from US East (Virginia) to EU West (Ireland).

Looking online it seems that the best approach is to create an AMI (this was accomplished).

So now how do I transfer this Windows AMI into the EU West? How can I put it into the S3 buckets, and then turn it on? Is this possible for Windows AMIs?

A detailded ex开发者_开发问答planition is greatly appreciated.

AWS just announced Cross Region EC2 AMI Copy

With EC2 AMI copy, you can easily copy the Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) you own to other AWS regions and scale your applications to take advantage of AWS's geographically diverse regions.

Here is the instructions from the user guide: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/CopyingAMIs.html?ref_=pe_12300_28673600_7

I am assuming that you are using an ebs backed instance.

The bad news: as far as I know there is no easy way to do this.

The good news: it can be done. Here is a detailed walkthrough that addresses your problem. You will need to install the ec2 command-line tools.

If your instance is without ebs you should be able to use the command-line tool ec2-migrate-image directly.