Currently, Amazon EBS Local Snapshots capability on Outposts is now available in all AWS commercial regions where AWS Outposts is available.

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.

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 ...

AWS announced four new storage services and capabilities that deliver more choice, reduce costs, and help customers better protect their data.

Clumio’s new service is claimed to deliver 30% savings with AWS integration at a similar cost as local in-account Amazon EBS snapshots.

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.

Nick Hardiman describes several methods of backups of your Amazon EC2 machines. He also details the steps for restoring snapshot backups.