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easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
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What is the easiest way to start learning Amazon EC2?
I'm new to AWS and curious about EC2. What’s the easiest way for a beginner to get hands-on practice with Amazon EC2? Should I launch a free-tier ...
asked a year ago
What’s the easiest way to stop an EC2 instance from running up charges when I’m not using it?
I launched a t2.micro EC2 instance to test something, but I’m worried it’ll cost me if I forget to stop i...
asked a year ago
Can I schedule an automatic shutdown for an EC2 instance every night?
I want to save money by shutting down a dev instance at midnight every day. Is there a built-in AWS method for doing this automati...
asked a year ago
Dear AWS Support,
I’d like to report a situation that I believe warrants additional safeguards on the AWS platform. I recently launched a new EC2 Ubuntu 22.04 instance from an AMI that was created fr...
I have a cloud init script which attaches a volume, creates a partition on said volume and then mounts that partition. For that I use parted and mkfs as usual. The image is based on Amazon Linux 2023 ...
Hello, today I got a new unexpected message on my Cost and Management board saying "You have exceeded your Free Plan usage limit for Services 2".
 are showing "Full Snapshot Size" nearly equal to the full volume size. It's as if most or all of the empty space is being counted too. Even on re...
"I got an email saying Your AWS account <> has exceeded 85% of the usage limit for one or more AWS Free Tier-eligible services for the month of March" I was looking at the monitoring for that EC2 ins...
I was looking at my AWS bill and found that I was charged $35 for an EBS volume with following details in month of Feb:
```
{
"Volumes": [
{
"Iops": 3000,
"VolumeT...
I would like to find out how I can verify that my EBS and RDS snapshots are valid and do contain the backed up data without actually restoring the snapshots. I want to prevent trying to restore a snap...
I am helping a client with cost optimization, recently in the AWS Elastic Block Store, we saw an unattached volume with no associated instance alongside it, I created numerous instances that match its...
Hey folks,
I came across an AWS blog that talks about scaling EBS volumes automatically, but I’m having a bit of trouble understanding how to set it up. 🤔
Does anyone know how to automatically sca...