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 ...

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment allows you to create a variety of instance types, including on-demand instances and spot instances. Occasionally, you may find that you need to create several ...

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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 Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 ...

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 ...

The vast majority of the EC2 instances that are created are not intended to be publicly accessible. These instances are assigned private IP addresses that are valid only within a specific virtual ...