QuickStart

1. Prepare two AWS accounts, one for Worldwide and one for China.

2. Build the AMI in your Worldwide account by the standard instructions, after that an available AMI will in your Worldwide AWS account.

3. To execute the tool with the certain parameters. It will copy the AMI from your Worldwide account to your China account.
   The tool is based on the Boto3 Python SDK. You can install the dependencies by the following command:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

   The tool supports the following parameters:

   Name	Description	Date type	Required	Default value	Example values
   SRC_AWS_PROFILE	The AWS profile name of your Worldwide account. You can configure the profile name by ~/.aws/credentials amd ~/.aws/config file. If you want to do that by AWS CLI commandline, you can check the guide at here.	String	No	ww	Worldwide
   DST_AWS_PROFILE	The AWS profile name of your China account. You can configure the profile name by ~/.aws/credentials amd ~/.aws/config file. If you want to do that by AWS CLI commandline, you can check the guide at here.	String	No	cn	china
   AMI_ID	The AMI ID of the AMI you want to copy. It in your Worldwide account.	String	Yes		ami-0123456789abcdefg
   SRC_BUCKET_NAME	The name of the S3 bucket used to store the temporary AMI binary file in your Worldwide account. If the bucket is not existing, a temprary one will be used.	String	No	my-temp-bucket-{time-now}	my-src-bucket
   DST_BUCKET_NAME	The name of the S3 bucket used to store the temporary AMI binary file in your China account. If the bucket is not existing, a temprary one will be used.	String	No	my-temp-bucket-{time-now}	my-dst-bucket
   TEMP_BUCKET_NAME_PREFIX	The prefix of the S3 bucket name used to store the temporary files for your Worldwide and China AWS accounts. The Bucket will be automatically crated, and deleted after use.	String	No	my-temp-bucket-	ami-copy-temp-

   For example, you can execute the tool by the following command to copy the AMI ami-0123456789abcdefg from your Worldwide account to your China account:

    AMI_ID=ami-0123456789abcdefg python ami_copy.py

   After the tool is executed successfully, you will see the AMI in your China account. The similar logs will be printed as following:

   Executing, started at 2023-07-27 16:02:05.
   Bucket my-temp-bucket-1690473726 created (region ap-southeast-1).
   AMI ami-0123456789abcdefg stored to my-temp-bucket-1690473726/ami-0123456789abcdefg.bin in region ap-southeast-1.
   Object my-temp-bucket-1690473726/ami-0123456789abcdefg.bin downloaded to /tmp/tmpkxldmshq (auto delete later).
   Bucket my-temp-bucket-1690474663 created (region cn-north-1).
   Stored AMI /tmp/tmpkxldmshq uploaded to my-temp-bucket-1690474663/ami-0123456789abcdefg.bin.
   Snapshot snap-0c7e05a710089da04 restored for AMI ami-0132c59633dd28339 in region cn-north-1.
   Encrypted snapshot snap-0875b74f2f9b59c6e duplicated from snap-0c7e05a710089da04 in region cn-north-1.
   AMI ami-0123456789abcdefg restored in region cn-north-1. New AMI ID: ami-0e95e9a116aa6f348
   Bucket my-temp-bucket-1690474663 deleted (region cn-north-1).
   Bucket my-temp-bucket-1690473726 deleted (region ap-southeast-1).
   Done, ended at 2023-07-27 16:44:26.
   

   In this example, the AMI ami-0e95e9a116aa6f348 in your China AWS account is ready to serve.

Note:

Technically this tool should support copy the AMI from China AWS account to Worldwide account, however I didn't test it yet.