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EC2 Image Builder

EC2 Image Builder - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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EC2 Image Builder

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, we will be discussing the EC2 Image Builder. We'll talk about what it is and what it can do. At the end of the video, you will be able to understand the value or benefits of using EC2 Image Builder in an organization and familiarize which AWS services integrate with EC2 Image Builder. Let's get right into it. Imagine this, your team deployed an application on a virtual machine in AWS around six months ago, and you need to update the image used for that same VM. Thinking about it, you imagine that the process would be time consuming, resource intensive, and error prone. To accomplish this daunting task, you're likely to implement one of the following strategies. One is to create a snapshot of your VMs and update your image, or have a team or an engineer build automation scripts to maintain the images. Updating images shouldn't be this much work. If only we had a build tool that can help significantly reduce the effort required to create and maintain…

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