add script to distribute AMIs across regions #21

Author: Gabriel Monroy

contrib/distribute-amis.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Distribute AMIs across regions using EC2 CLI tools
+#
+
+if [ -z $2 ] ; then
+  echo usage: $0 [src-region] [src-ami]
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+set -ex
+
+src_region=$1
+src_ami=$2
+
+# copy the ami to every other region
+for region in ap-northeast-1 ap-southeast-1 ap-southeast-2 eu-west-1 sa-east-1 us-east-1 us-west-1 us-west-2; do
+  [ $region = $src_region ] && continue
+  ec2-copy-image -r $src_region -s $src_ami --region $region
+done