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I currently have a micro instance backed by an EBS volume. I have nginx and MySQL installed on it. Everything is on the EBS volume.

I want to upgrade to a small instance. Both instances are configured to use Ubuntu (12.04.3 LTS and 12.04.1 LTS, 64-bit)

The following are the steps I am going to perform:

  1. Stop the micro instance.
  2. Detach the EBS volume and attach to the small instance as root.
  3. Boot up the small instance.

Question: Will everything continue to work fine as before?

Question: The micro is currently in us-east-1c and the small is in us-east-1b. If this matters, what can I do to overcome it?

Answer ** I figured. This is what I did:

  1. Stop the micro inst.
  2. Create an AMI out of it.
  3. Start a new small inst using the AMI.
  4. Delete the AMI.

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You don't have to move your volumes. You can do this instead.

  1. Stop your micro instance
  2. Change your micro instance type to small
  3. Start your instance
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  • In that case, you need to create a snapshot of the volume and then create a new volume from the snapshot in the correct zone. This would be a good time to increase your volume size if you happen to need it. – datasage Oct 20 '13 at 17:46