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Restoring Machines

You can restore physical or virtual machines from backups to Amazon EC2. The restored machine appears in the Amazon EC2 console, and you can use it as a regular EC2 instance.

Before you restore a machine to Amazon EC2, check prerequisites. Then use the Restore to Amazon EC2 wizard to restore the machine.

  1. Launch the Restore to Amazon EC2 wizard
  2. Specify credentials and region settings
  3. Select a machine and restore point
  4. Specify an instance name
  5. Specify an instance type
  6. Select an Amazon VPC
  7. Specify secure restore settings
  8. Specify a proxy appliance
  9. Specify a restore reason
  10. Start the restore process