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Making an Amazon EBS Volume Available for Use
Creating an Amazon EBS Snapshot
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Deleting an Amazon EBS Volume
Amazon Simple Storage Service
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Using Amazon EBS-Backed AMIs and Instances
Basics of Amazon EBS-Backed AMIs and Instances
Launching, Stopping, and Starting
Creating an Image from a Running Instance
Automatically Attaching Volumes
Launching an Instance from a Snapshot
Modifying Attributes of a Stopped Instance
Changing the Instance Initiated Shutdown Behavior
Using Instances of Your Virtual Machine in Amazon EC2
Before You Get Started
Using the Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector to Import Your Virtual Machine to Amazon EC2
Using the Command Line Tools to Import Your Virtual Machine to Amazon EC2
Reserved Instances
Understanding the Pricing Benefit and Consolidated Billing
Reserved Instances and Consolidated Billing
Tools and Prerequisites
Working with Reserved Instances
Spot Instances
Get Started with Spot Instances
View Spot Price History
Create a Spot Instance Request
Find Running Spot Instances
Cancel Spot Instance Requests
Plan for Interruptions
Launching Amazon Elastic MapReduce Job Flows with Spot Instances
Starting Clusters on Spot Instances
Bidding Strategies
Advanced Tasks
Persist Your Root EBS Partition
Tag Spot Instance Requests
Launch Spot Instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Subscribe to Your Spot Instance Data Feed
Failure Resilient Application Concepts
Amazon EC2 Credentials
Listing and Filtering Your Resources
Using Tags
Using Instance IP Addresses
Using Security Groups
Using Regions and Availability Zones
Micro Instances
Using Cluster Instances
Auto-Scaling and Load Balancing Your Instances
Monitoring Your Instances and Volumes
Monitoring Your Instances and Volumes with CloudWatch
Monitoring the Status of Your Instances
Monitoring Instances with Status Checks
Monitoring Scheduled Events
Using Public Data Sets
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Elastic Network Interfaces
Canceling Amazon EC2
Getting Started with the Command Line Tools
Prerequisites
Setting Up the Tools
Using AWS Identity and Access Management
Making API Requests
Endpoints
Making Query Requests
Making SOAP Requests
The Response Structure
Available Libraries
Troubleshooting Instances with Failed Status Checks
Technical FAQ
General Information FAQ
Instances and AMIs Information FAQ
Operation Information FAQ
Instance Types and Architectures FAQ
IP Information FAQ
Region and Availability Zone FAQ
Windows Instances FAQ
Monitoring, Errors, and Unexpected Behavior FAQ
Reserved Instances FAQs
Paid AMIs FAQ
Kernels and RAM Disk FAQ
Error Messages FAQ
Miscellaneous FAQ
Appendices
Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: Metadata Categories
Appendix C: Windows Configuration Service
Amazon EC2 Resources
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General Information FAQ
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Operation Information FAQ
Instance Types and Architectures FAQ
IP Information FAQ
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Windows Instances FAQ
Monitoring, Errors, and Unexpected Behavior FAQ
Reserved Instances FAQs
Paid AMIs FAQ
Kernels and RAM Disk FAQ
Error Messages FAQ
Miscellaneous FAQ
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