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Prewarming of EBS Volumes
AWS Documentation: Pre-Warming of EBS Volumes
Windows Server 2012R2
C:\>dd if=\\.\drive_letter: of=/dev/null bs=1M --progress
This commands reads all bits from the volume drive_letter. It should be non destructive.
Formatting the drive is another option. It deletes the old content.
C:\>format drive_letter: /p:1”
Link Collection
- Latency
- CloudPing.info: Test site for AWS browser latencies to AWS regions.
- ATT US network latencies: ATT latencies in the US by city (not AWS related)
- EBS Volumes
- EBS disk migration script ebsmig: Python scripts which allows to migrate EBS and provisoned IOPS volumes to the new and cheaper gp2 EBS volumes.
- Security
- AWS Security Center
- DDos Resiliency with Amazon Web Services: Presentation at re-Invent. Related Youtube video
- Compliance
- Health Care, HIPAA and HITECH Compliance with AWS
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