Recover an EC2-Classic Instance

Question

We have a little used instance albeit a public facing website that has been shutdown at the start of the month, presumably as it hadn't been migrated to a VPC.  Is there any way to move this over to be supported/functional or do we need to recreate this instance?  At the moment it has no VPC attached and the old security group.

Answer

Hello, I found some documentation on this type of migration here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/vpc-migrate.html

Answer

Thanks, but the problem is that I don't use AWS that often and I don't really know what to do.  I can start the instance up and connect to the public IP address and connect via SFTP to it and see the file structure, but don't know if I can then connect an elastic IP to it or not.
"Platform" suggests: EC2 can't retrieve the platform because the AMI was either deleted or made private.
"AMI name" suggests: EC2 can't retrieve the name because the AMI was either deleted or made private.
Security Group: The security group 'xx-xxxxxxxx' does not exist

Is it easier for me to just create a new instance and copy over the relevant files over to it? I think the instance had multiple sites hosted on it at one point, but I don't believe that is necessary now.

Recover an EC2-Classic Instance

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