The versatile advantages of NVMe are becoming increasingly apparent in modern storage systems. You can take advantage of them in the cloud.
How to expand the EBS boot volume of a Linux-based EC2 instance
This is easier than you probably think: AWS will expand the EBS boot volume of an EC2 instance running Linux automatically when you launch a new instance off of it with the desired capacity.
Here is how it works in more detail.
Tip: assign multiple IP addresses to an EC2 instance
[Updated 2018-06-11.] You can assign multiple IP addresses to an EC 2 instance. Here is a brief summary that will get you started on using the most recent AWS capabilities.
KVM set to replace the Xen hypervisor in AWS EC2 on the AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas
During the upcoming AWS re:INVENT 2017 conference in Las Vegas (Nov. 27th – Dec. 1st), Amazon is going to present a major change to its cloud offering, one with enormous ramifications! Yes, you read that right—and yes, that exclamation mark is fully justified.
How to Restore Your Instance Data from a Backup using Snapshots on AWS EC2/EBS
You are writing all these backups as individual EC2 snapshots and/or full AMIs on AWS EC2 but how can you actually use them, should disaster befall your data?
Here is how to do that on Linux.