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<p>snapshots are not backups and long term can cause problems.</p><p><br></p>
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snapshots are not backups and long term can cause problems.




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Luis Rodriguez-Galvan

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<p>Thanks for the information</p>
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I have some AWS EC2 instances and I backup them thru snapshots.
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I have some AWS EC2 instances and I backup them thru snapshots.

Please advise if there are more automated way to make the backups 
thanka

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.

Please advise if there are more automated way to make the backups thanka