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 ...

Snapshots Archive with AWS Backup is only available for snapshots with a backup frequency of one month or longer (28-day cron expression) and a retention of more than 90 days.

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

Otherwise, AWS charges a penny per hour for the IP address. Snapshots Snapshots are a handy mechanism for backing up your Amazon EC2 instances, but there's a cost to storing your snapshots. It's a ...

AWS will make an AMI from your snapshot with some behind-the-scenes tinkering. If you are used to VMware snapshots, you will find EC2 snapshots are not the same. Examine the original EC2 machine.

Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS) allows developers to create storage volumes that can be mounted by Amazon EC2 instances, among other things. While it was always relatively easy to move an EC2 ...