Amazon cloud skills are in high demand. This easy, step-by-step guide will help start you on your path to cloud mastery If your company hasn’t ventured an Amazon cloud deployment already, the day may ...

Aside from third-party solutions, snapshots are the best option for backing up your EC2 virtual machines, says Brien Posey, who explains how managing the process is something of an art form. Unless ...

EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today My article “Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: ...

Nick Hardiman describes several methods of backups of your Amazon EC2 machines. He also details the steps for restoring snapshot backups. As part of my operational readiness preparation, I want to ...

How to create a new AMI from a snapshot and launch a new VM Your email has been sent AWS jargon Examine the original EC2 machine. Take a snapshot and make a new AMI Launch a new instance Clean up Nick ...

Many companies like mine use AWS infrastructure as a service (IaaS) heavily. Sometimes we want to perform a potentially risky operation on an EC2 instance. As long as we do not work with immutable ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps you automate the snapshot process by allowing you to create snapshot lifecycle policies. Here's a look at how these policies work. Although snapshots can be very useful ...