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 ...

Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

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In an AWS environment, it can sometimes be useful to host copies of an EC2 instance in multiple regions. An organization might do this as a way of ensuring that an application performs well for users ...