Tenancy in AWS refers to how your EC2 instances are hosted on physical servers. It determines whether your instance shares the underlying hardware with other AWS accounts or runs on dedicated hardware. There are three main tenancy options: You can specify tenancy during instance launch or VPC creation. For more information use this link – […]
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Stop Protection is a safety feature in EC2 that prevents your instance from being stopped by mistake. When it is turned on, you cannot stop the instance unless you first disable stop protection. This is useful for important servers that must always stay running. To stop such an instance, go to the settings, turn off
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Termination Protection is a feature in AWS EC2 that helps prevent accidental deletion of your instance. When enabled, it prevents the instance from being terminated through the AWS Management Console, CLI, or API. This is especially useful for critical servers such as production or database instances. 1. When launching the server, you can set termination
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In AWS, key pairs are used to securely connect to EC2 instances. There are primarily two types of key pairs based on their cryptographic algorithms: RSA Key Pair – ED25519 Key Pair 1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and search for EC2 in the search bar. 2. Select the Key Pairs option from
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1. The left sidebar displays all the options that help you manage your EC2 instances. 2. The search bar is used to find your EC2 instances. 3. Next is the “All States” option, where you can find your machines based on their state, such as running, stopped, terminated, and others. 4. The Connect button is
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1. An EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance is a virtual server in AWS used to run applications in the cloud. It allows you to choose different instance types based on your requirements for CPU, memory, and storage. You can launch EC2 instances using various AMIs, connect to them via SSH (for Linux) or RDP (for
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1. Open the AWS Management Console and search for the IAM service to perform this operation. 2. Open the service and navigate inside. On the left-hand side, locate the ‘Credential Reports’ option and click on it. 3. Click on ‘Download Credential Report’ to save the file 4. Open the downloaded file in Excel to view
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(Managing Access Keys” means properly creating, deleting, and managing access keys to ensure security and compliance. In AWS, access keys are highly sensitive, and if not handled correctly, they can lead to security risks. You should follow these steps for “Creating, Deleting, and Reassigning Access Keys 1. Open the AWS Management Console and use the
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1. Log in to your account. 2. Search for the IAM service and navigate to it. 3. On the left side, you’ll find the ‘Users’ option. Click on it, and you can choose to tag users based on your needs. There are two types of user tagging: (we assign tags already created users) 4. Select
1. Open the AWS Console, launch an EC2 instance, connect to it, and then try to list IAM users using the AWS CLI or Management Console. 2. Type this Commands # aws iam list-users 3. So, if you’re not able to access it, go to the IAM section, create a role for that purpose, click
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