How to take a backup of my EC2 instance

Question

Hi Guys,

I have my instance in AWS. Now I want to take a backup of my instance. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can take a backup using snapshot service in AWS. Follow the below-given steps to take a backup.

• Login to your AWS account.

• Click on EC2 service.

• There you can find Elastic block storage.

• Click on Volumes.

• Select your volume and in Actions, you can find create snapshot option.

• Give description and click on create snapshot.