For Restoring the DB instance in EC2 Go to Sanpshot tab in ec2 Instances section Copy snapshots ({500GB snapshot ID} and {150GB snapshot ID}) to us-east-1 with the aws/ebs master key. This will create a new snapshot in the aws account with the master key. From the newly copied snapshot we need to restore the snapshot as an AMI. Click the new sanpshot created off of {150GB snapshot ID} (150GB) and click Actions tab and click “Create Image” On the new screen, choose the following values Architecture: x86_64 Virtualization type: hardware-assisted-virtualization Root device name: /dev/sda1 Kernel ID: use default RAM disk ID: use default Then click add new volume and add the other sanpshot in there with following values Volume Type: EBS Device: /dev/sdb Snapshot: {newly copied snapshot ID (500GB)} Size: 500GB Then click create. Once created, resotre the Image as an ec2 instance.