Cloud Migration – Migrating AWS EC2 Instance To Google Cloud Compute Engine Virtual Machine.

In this edition of the Newsletter, I will describe one of the approaches to successfully migrate a single EC2 instance running on AWS to Google Cloud. 

AWS EC2 environment details

I have a self-contained WordPress instance (LEMP) running on EC2 on a ubuntu 20.04 instance.

In order to migrate the instance to Google Cloud, the following high-level steps are to be followed -

• Create an AWS AMI for your EC2 instance and convert it to a VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) image format. The VMDK is the standalone virtual machine containing all the contents.
• Import the VMDK image into Google Cloud Compute Engine using gcloud image command. 
• Create a VM instance from the image in Step 2

For set-by-step guidance, kindly visit my blog - https://navveenbalani.dev/index.php/articles/cloud-migration-migrating-aws-ec2-instance-to-google-cloud-compute-engine-virtual-machine/ for more details.