Automate EC2 (AWS) Backups with Python
Taking a manual backup of an EC2 instance is easy: You right click on the associated volume(s) and create a snapshot.
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Auto-Scale Ghost Instances (AWS EC2)
Over the past week I have been testing Amazon’s AWS EC2 Auto-scaling with a few custom AMIs. Early today as I was cleaning up the auto-scaling configuration I encountered a bit of a conundrum – the auto-scaling API was returning a few instances that did not exist and was stopping me from removing an auto-scaling-group. After hitting Google I wasn’t any wiser, but it seemed that I did not dismantle my test setup properly, which was most likely causing the problem.