AWS's rentable computers — known as 'instances' — typically use EBS to store data. The data is placed on hardware separate from that running the instance, and the data is served to the ...

Brien Posey shows how to use the EBS Lifecycle Manager in the AWS cloud to build automated lifecycle policies for your EBS snapshots and avoid money-wasting proliferation.

Morris built a tool using Amazon’s own internal search feature to query and scrape publicly exposed EBS snapshots, then attach it, make a copy and list the contents of the volume on his system.

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 ...