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 ...

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 ...

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Nick Hardiman shows you the steps to taking a snapshot of your Amazon Machine Image and launching a new VM from it to build in redundancy for your service. I took a factory-fresh AWS micro-instance ...

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 ...