Recommendations and best practices
Here are a few handy recommendations and best practices to keep in mind when working with volumes:
- Create and use IAM policies and allow only a particular set of users from accessing your EBS volumes.
- Create and take periodic snapshots of your volumes. Always remember to provide suitable names and descriptions for your snapshots so that they can be easily identified and re-used.
- Always take snapshots during the nonbusiness hours of your application.
- Clean up unused or older snapshots to save on unnecessary costs.
- Encrypt your EBS volumes if you have some sensitive data stored on them.
- Select and use the correct type of EBS volume as per your application's needs. Use performance-optimized volumes for your high-performance ...
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