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Copy Image from one azure subscription to another azure subscription

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Monday, July 23, 2018 7:13 PM

Hi,

I have a customer who has two azure subscriptions, in one of them, he has already a Windows 2016 STD image as shown below that he can use to create new VMs, the customer asked if there is a way to copy this image to a the other azure subscription so he can use it there to create new VMs in that subscription, is there a way?

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Monday, July 23, 2018 8:31 PM âś…Answered | 1 vote

You can do this. However it is not a straight forward "Move to another Subscription" action. 

You need to copy the VHD the image is using to another storage account of the second subscription. Once the VHD is copied to the second subscription you then can create an new image using that VHD and use it to create VMs. 

Here are some links of other users who have asked the same: 

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sonam_rastogi_blogs/2014/11/24/copying-azure-images-across-subscriptions/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16583940/create-azure-vm-from-image-created-under-different-subscription