3.8.1 Export the Lightsail Snapshot

When you upgrade your Amazon Lightsail instance to an Amazon EC2 instance, the first step is to create a new snapshot and then export that snapshot to Amazon EC2.

1. Return to the Lightsail console home page.
2. Next to the php-fe-rds instance:
   • Click the three dots;
   • Click ‘Manage’
3. From the horizontal menu, click ‘Snapshots’.
4. Click the ‘Create snapshot’.
5. Wait for the snapshot to finish being creating before moving on.
6. To the right of the snapshot:
   • Click the three dots;
   • Click ‘Export to Amazon EC2’

     This will start an operation that will create a new Amazon machine image (AMI) based on the Amazon Lightsail snapshot. The new AMI will be created in the same region as the existing Lightsail snapshot.

7. At the first dialog, click ‘Yes, continue’.
8. At the next dialog, click ‘Acknowledged’.
9. At the top of the Amazon Lightsail homepage, a set of gears will start spinning. Click the gears to see the current status of the export operation.