How to remove paid windows AMI but keep your instance intact?

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Compute AWS Marketplace

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Amazon EC2 Windows Provisioning AWS Marketplace - Buyer

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James Auld

asked a year ago185 views

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"Spin a new instance from the free AMI, migrate your data over" unfortunately. There's no way to clone an instance from a paid AMI to an unpaid version.

QuinnyPig

answered a year ago

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