Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps you automate the snapshot process by allowing you to create snapshot lifecycle policies. Here's a look at how these policies work.

The AWS FSx service allows you to create an external file system that can be attached to an EC2 instance for supplementary storage.

In this demo, we walked through setting up an Ansible playbook to log into AWS, create a snapshot of a given EC2 instance and create a new one based on the original one.

Nick Hardiman shows you the steps to taking a snapshot of your Amazon Machine Image and launching a new VM from it to build in redundancy for your service.

Although AWS has plans to support SnapChange with new features and functionality, Nalley said it hopes to engage with the research community to create a more robust tool in the longer term.