This pattern explains the step-by-step process of migrating and ingesting Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows instances into an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Services (AMS) account. AMS can help you manage the instance more efficiently and securely. AMS provides operational flexibility, enhances security and compliance, and helps you optimize capacity and reduce costs.
This pattern starts with an EC2 Windows instance that you have migrated to a staging subnet in your AMS account. A variety of migration services and tools are available to perform this task, such as AWS Application Migration Service.
To make a change to your AMS-managed environment, you create and submit a request for change (RFC) for a particular operation or action. Using an AMS workload ingest (WIGS) RFC, you ingest the instance into the AMS account and create a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI). You then create the AMS-managed EC2 instance by submitting another RFC to create an EC2 stack. For more information, see AMS Workload Ingest in the AMS documentation.
