EC2 instance image on VirtualBOX?

Question

Is there any way of getting the saved EC2 instance image and running it on virtualbox on my personal computer?

Answer 1

The official way is only if it was originally imported into EC2

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ExportingEC2Instances.html

If you have previously imported an instance into Amazon EC2, you can use the command line tools to export that instance to Citrix Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware vSphere. Exporting an instance can be useful when you want to deploy a copy of your EC2 instance in your on-site virtualization environment.

You cannot export an instance unless it was previously imported into AWS

Answer 2

it looks like you can directly import/export ec2 and virtualbox/vmware images.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport/