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Creating backups with an AMI Snapshot

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Creating backups with an AMI Snapshot

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- [Narrator] From within the EC2 console in the details pane of your running instance, click on the networking tab, scroll down and take note of the availability zone the instance is currently running in. Mine is running in US East 1C. At the top of the details pane, click on the security tab. Under security groups, take note of the name of the security group on our running instance. Mine is called Launch Wizard 1 because it was a security group that the EC2 launch instance Wizard made for us. Okay, at the top, click on the actions, pull down and under image and templates, select create image. For image name type EC2 demo and there's an option here that says reboot instance. AWS needs to stop the virtual machine to take an image of it. If you select to not reboot the instance, and this instance was still running, it would attempt to create a snapshot of the hard drive listed here as the instance volume while the…

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