Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps you automate the snapshot process by allowing you to create snapshot lifecycle policies. Here's a look at how these policies work.

Nick Hardiman shows you the steps to taking a snapshot of your Amazon Machine Image and launching a new VM from it to build in redundancy for your service.

Sometimes you might want to automate multiple tasks without the hassle of working with several individual SSM documents. You can simplify this action by creating a composite document. Here's how you ...

In this demo, we walked through setting up an Ansible playbook to log into AWS, create a snapshot of a given EC2 instance and create a new one based on the original one.

Although AWS has plans to support SnapChange with new features and functionality, Nalley said it hopes to engage with the research community to create a more robust tool in the longer term.