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Create and restore instance snapshots

Create and restore instance snapshots

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Create and restore instance snapshots

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- [Instructor] If you've spent much time working with Microsoft Hyper-V, you know that Microsoft allows you to create checkpoints of your virtual machines. These checkpoints used to be referred to as snapshots, and Amazon also allows you to create snapshots of the virtual machine instances that you create in the AWS cloud. So let's take a look at how this works. As you can see, I've got a single instance that's currently up and running, and let's go ahead and create a snapshot of that instance. What I'm going to do is go to the Elastic Block Store section, which you can see right here by my mouse pointer. Then I'm going to click on snapshots. At this point, I'm going to click on create snapshot, and I'm taking to the create snapshot screen. And the first thing that I have to choose is what type of snapshot I want to create. I can create a snapshot of a single volume, or I can create a snapshot of an instance. I'm going to create an instant snapshot. So now that I've selected instance,…

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