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Export AWS EC2 instance to a standard VM file format - ova, ovf, vmdk
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export-ec2-to-ova.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Export EC2 to OVA and save OVA in S3 bucket s3://export-vms/ubuntus/18-04/*.ova
aws ec2 create-instance-export-task \
--instance-id i-0c006d5b801050318 \
--target-environment vmware \
--export-to-s3-task DiskImageFormat=VMDK,ContainerFormat=ova,S3Bucket=export-vms,S3Prefix=ubuntus/18-04/
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