AWS Compute Blog

Category: HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS)

Tag HAQM EBS Snapshots on Creation and Implement Stronger Security Policies

This blog was contributed by Rucha Nene, Sr. Product Manager for HAQM EBS AWS customers use tags to track ownership of resources, implement compliance protocols, control access to resources via IAM policies, and drive their cost accounting processes. Last year, we made tagging for HAQM EC2 instances and HAQM EBS volumes easier by adding the […]

Longer Resource IDs in 2018 for HAQM EC2, HAQM EBS, and HAQM VPC

This post contributed by Laura Thomson, Senior Product Manager for HAQM EC2. As you start planning for the new year, I want to give you a heads up that HAQM EC2 is migrating to longer format, 17-character resource IDs. Instances and volumes currently already receive this ID format. Beginning in July 2018, all newly created […]

Automating HAQM EBS Snapshot Management with AWS Step Functions and HAQM CloudWatch Events

Brittany Doncaster, Solutions Architect Business continuity is important for building mission-critical workloads on AWS. As an AWS customer, you might define recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) for different tier applications in your business. After the RPO and RTO requirements are defined, it is up to your architects to determine how to […]