A new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Copy: to easily copy your Amazon Machine Images between AWS Regions

Henceforth Amazon Web service has introduced a new feature called Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Copy. The goal behind this new release is to enable you to easily copy your Amazon Machine Images between AWS Regions. This means that now you can copy an AMI from one region to another,
enabling you to easily launch consistent instances based on the same AMI into different regions. You can more easily design and build world-scale applications that meet the needs of your users, regardless of their location.

You can increase performance by distributing your application and locating critical components of your application in closer proximity to your users.

You can also take advantage of region-specific features such as instance types or other AWS services.

You can design and deploy applications across AWS regions, to increase availability.
And finally you can initiate copies from the AWS Management Console , the command line tools, the EC2 API or the AWS SDKs.