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Brien Posey drills down on how to set up termination protection in the Amazon EC2 dashboard to prevent mission-critical instances from being accidentally deleted. By its very nature, cloud-based ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services has released a tool to simplify the importing of VMware virtual machines into its infrastructure. The Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector, which Amazon Web Services (AWS) released on ...

After earlier describing some of the storage types that are used by EC2 instances, Brien now shows how this information plays into the troubleshooting process. In the previous article, I explained ...

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 ...