Automate your AWS resources quickly with the AWS automation tool

Posted by alvina on March 31st, 2018

AWS which stands for Amazon Web Services provides an on-demand infrastructure to all different sized companies.AWS automation tool is easily able to provide you a united automated AWS solution. This applies a drag and drop type of technology that is designed to manage your AWS structure.This is done by combining tools and different services from not only the virtual but also physical cloud worlds. Automate connects unequal applications into a single workflow.AWS has many features that include

Create and delete and even list snapshots

It is compatible with the EC2, S3, Simple DB and the SQS

Ability to manage security groups

Integration of the applications SharePoint, Excel, SQL, FTP, and AWS running in either virtual, cloud or the physical environments.

The integration of different platforms like Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac OS, mainframe all running in virtual, color or physical also

Automate allows the ability to keep an eye on the performance metrics to know when to start the EC2 for load balancing.The Amazon Elastic Block Store also known as Amazon EBS can save a point in time of snapshots of their volumes. The automated EBS snapshots can then be used to create multiple volumes, expand the size and move to different availability zones.

The EBS snapshots are important to backup your data. It allows you to have a point in time backup and also a backup resilience to your own data. The point in time snapshot of your EBS volume can be used as a baseline for creating new volumes and data back-up. By making periodic snapshots of your volumes, the snapshots are then incremental. This means only the blocks on your device have changed after the last snapshot was saved into the new snapshot place.Although snapshots are saved as a regular increment the actual snapshot deleting journey is made so you can keep only recent snapshots. This allows restoring the whole volume.The point in time snapshot is made straight away but the actual snapshot status stays at pending until all the modified blocks are transferred to the S3.

Be aware this transfer can take many hours or large snapshots or the snapshots that have had so many blocks changed.While this process is going on the in-progress snapshot does not get affected by all the reads and ongoing writes to the whole volume.When you have created a snapshot of a volume using an AWS marketplace code, the product code is then broadcasted to the snapshot.It is possible to get a snapshot of a volume that is attached but the snapshots, however, will only capture the data that has been written to the Amazon EBS volume from when the snapshot command was issued. This may not include data that was cached by the operating system or applications. If you are able to then pause file writes to the volume long enough so you can get the snapshot done, then it should be complete and successful. Simply once you understand how it works.