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.

Recently AWS announced that its Outposts service now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (ESB) local snapshots. With Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts, customers can store snapshots of their ...

AWS open-sources snapshot fuzzing and policy authorization tools - SiliconANGLEAmazon Web Services Inc. said today that it’s open-sourcing two new projects, including a new fuzzing tool for ...

When you first begin reading AWS' snapshot-related documentation, it initially seems that AWS snapshots work similarly to Hyper-V snapshots, and that AWS is just calling the snapshots backups.

Nick Hardiman describes several methods of backups of your Amazon EC2 machines. He also details the steps for restoring snapshot backups.

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In this demo, we walked through setting up an Ansible playbook to log into AWS, create a snapshot of a given EC2 instance and create a new one based on the original one.

Recovery snapshots Since then, AWS has been working to create recovery snapshots for customers to help them resurrect the data volumes.

Figure A AWS assigns unique identifiers for pretty much everything: your new AMI is labelled with an identifier along the lines of ami-12345678 and the snapshot gets snap-12345678. Launch a new ...