An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an AWS resource we use to deploy Amazon EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) instances. Ideally, an AMI contains the Operating System(Windows, Linux etc.) and a list of customization made on it to meet specific requirements. It helps to quickly bootstrap one or more EC2 instances with similar configuration. As per Amazon…
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AWS EC2 Volumes Tagging
A Tag is an user defined metadata or label to an AWS resource to identify and manage it efficiently. Tag consists of a Key and an optional Value. It helps us to identify resources in Cloud environment quickly. For Example, a tag for “Environment” will help us to identify all resources in a particular environment….
AWS EBS Volumes Billing Report
If you are familiar with AWS services Usage Billing reports you might have noticed there are two types of billing for EC2. Once for the EC2 Compute resources and it does not include Storage, EIP and some other resources attached with the EC2. AWS has categorized all those costs in to “EC2 – Other”. So,…
AWS EBS Snapshot inventory
Amazon EBS Snapshot is point in time copy of Amazon EBS(Elastic Block Storage) volumes attached with EC2 instance. We usually take snapshot just to make a baseline system by freezing the state in a snapshot and using it as a source to deploy other similar system. Sometimes, we do take snapshot as a way of…