What is difference between snapshot and AMI in AWS? AMI’s in AWS are snapshots of an EC2’s ephemeral system image. An EBS Snapshot is performed on a particular volume attached to an EC2 instance. What is an AWS EBS Snapshot? An easy way to it think of an AWS EBS Snapshot is to consider it just …
A NAT Gateway in AWS is a Network Address Translation Service that allows AWS resources in private subnet have connections to the internet. An Internet Gateway in AWS is a logically redundant resource that allows communication between your AWS VPC and the internet. Why Do I Need a NAT Gateway? You need an AWS NAT …
Terminate your EC2 Instance with the following CLI Command: Example of using the EC2 terminate-instance CLI Command: Can an EC2 Instance Terminate Itself? You can have an EC2 Instance Terminate Itself by following these steps: Start the instance with –instance-initiated-shutdown-behavior terminate. Run shutdown -h now as root. On Ubuntu, you could set this up to happen in 55 …
According to AWS’s publicly facing documentation – Purchases of Reserved Instances are non-refundable. This means when you complete the contract to purchase a Reserved Instance in AWS – you are committed for the length of time in the contract. The length of this contract is in the form of either 1 or 3 years. How …
AWS provides an SLA for compute resources of 99.99%. That is a guarantee for the physical infrastructure. Customers need to adhere to the AWS Shared responsibility model and best practices – whereby they architect their AWS EC2 instances and other AWS Resources across two or more availability zones within a single Region. This provides Fault …