AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS CCP) Practice Test Set 1: What method can you use to take a backup of an Amazon EC2 instance using AWS tools?

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What method can you use to take a backup of an Amazon EC2 instance using AWS tools?

Sarahmarie Hollenstein · Accepted Answer

You can take snapshots of EC2 instances which creates a point-in-time copy of the instance. Snapshots are stored on S3. If you make periodic snapshots of a volume, the snapshots are incremental, which means that only the blocks on the device that have changed after your last snapshot are saved in the new snapshot.

Sarahmarie Hollenstein · Answer

"Take a snapshot to capture the point-in-time state of the instance"