would be nice for sure. luckily AWS builds the API first then builds it into the console, so many you can still get the job done just takes a little digging. feel free to reach out if you ever run into another situation like this
I know this is a little late for your case but you can migrate snapshots from 1 region to another. We spend sunday moving from US-East 1 to US-West 1 and took 2 hours to setup our entire infrastructure consisting of 20 servers & about 180 GB database
* ylastic is really cheap at $25 / month
* I used the perl script migrate-ebs-image.pl, super simple to install and use.
* CloudyScripts has open sourced their Ruby gem so you can build on top of it. They also have a free web form you can just use (but may not be secure enough). But you can launch their AMI in your own instance which should be secure