The AWS GUI console is a basic way to manage AWS EC2 instances. If you are performing repetitive tasks on multiple instances then using the CLI is a better way to manage. All these commands assume you have the necessary permissions to run. This is some more common CLI examples: …

The Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) offers persistent storage for Amazon EC2 instances through EBS volumes. Amazon EBS provides the ability to create point-in-time consistent snapshots of the volumes, which are then stored in Amazon S3. These snapshots are also replicated across multiple Availability Zones automatically. Snapshots play an …