Amazon EC2 now protects your AMIs from accidental deregistration
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The article announces a new feature in Amazon EC2 that protects your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) from accidental deregistration. AMIs are critical resources used to launch EC2 instances, and their unintentional deregistration could lead to production outages.
Specifically, the article covers:
- You can now mark your AMIs as protected to prevent accidental deregistration
- Protected AMIs cannot be deregistered until you explicitly disable deregistration protection
- You can optionally enable a 24-hour cooldown period during which a protected AMI cannot be deregistered even after disabling protection
- This feature is available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud and China Regions
- It can be enabled through the EC2 Console, CLI, and APIs
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