Helpful hints for downsizing an old Amazon EC2 instance
If you're working with Amazon AWS and trying to move stuff from some kind of big EC2 instance down to a t2.micro one (since the t1.micro is no longer offered), here are a few helpful hints to get you started.
First of all, be sure to start up the new micro instance in the same exact region as the old instance - not just us-east, but us-east-1 or whatever.