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Understanding Amazon Web Services

Dear Experts,

I have a brief idea of Amazon Web Services.

I know that you create an instance: virtual server/PC in the cloud.

The wizard is there to guide and you have to generate and download the key pair in order to access it.

I also know that S3 bucket is used to store the backup of Amazon EC2 instance, but where can I get information on how to do the backup to the S3 bucket using GUI instead of CLI?

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Prabhin MP

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Phil Phillips

If you're talking about EBS snapshots (snapshots of the EC2 volumes themselves, backed behind-the-scenes by S3), you should take a look at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html

For automating the snapshots, they also have fairly good documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/snapshot-lifecycle.html#snapshot-lifecycle-console

Anonymous KH

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Hi!

For file level recovery for EBS snapshot or AMI Images, is there any other way to view all the files and just copy that particular file back into the production instance?

How can we save the snapshots and AMI images into the S3 bucket just using GUI, no CLI please.

Phil Phillips

Unfortunately, on the EBS level that's not currently possible. You'd have to restore the snapshot to a volume and mount it to an instance to gain access to the files.

Anonymous KH

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Hi! Phil,

Understood.

Anonymous KH

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Hi!

Is there a guide or tutorial on learning AWS at least a rough guide, don't have to be too detailed but at least I have a rough idea on its functions and features?

I newly created a VPC but I do not know how am I to connect to the instance in the VPC, I am really new to this AWS.

Michel Sakr

Hi,

Restoring from an EBS snapshot is a Lazy restore, that means all files are available immediately upon first access, so no need to restore everything first to get access to what you want.. hope this make is clear, check here for more details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-restoring-volume.html

For info and tutorials:

Check AWS documents https://docs.aws.amazon.com/index.html#lang/en_us they have all what you need to get kickin..

Also AWS training have an overall practitioner ~7 hours free tutorial videos.. that will let you dive into it fast https://www.aws.training/learningobject/curriculum?id=16357 and you can brows other advanced ones to delve into it

Anonymous KH

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I created a VPC with an instance in it.

Now I am unable to rdp into that instance as it is using a private IP address.

Prabhin MP

May i know from where you are trying to do RDP?

Is public IP attached to VM.

Anonymous KH

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Hi! Prabhin,

I am trying to rdp from my PC, but I think I need to configure a router in order to rdp if i am not wrong.

I am still very noob in AWS.

Prabhin MP

you wont be able to access window server via RDP with private unless you configured VPN .

Use public IP to the instance and access.

Anonymous KH

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I have to configure some sort of router in the vpn cloud so that the instance can access the internet and my end I can rdp in, am I right!

Anonymous KH

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How do I enable Public DNS (IPv4) and IPv4 Public IP in a VPC instance as i need to update Windows patches?

I have enabled DNS hostname and enabled Auto-assign IPv4 but the instance is still not getting any public IP?