Day 8: Enable Stop Protection for EC2 Instance

🛡️ Day 8: Enable Stop Protection for EC2 Instance | 100 Days of Cloud (AWS) Welcome to Day 8 of the 100 Days of Cloud (AWS) series! In this lab, you’ll learn how to enable Stop Protection for an EC2 instance—an important safeguard to prevent accidental shutdowns. The Nautilus DevOps team wants to ensure that a critical instance is protected from being stopped unintentionally, which could disrupt services. 📌 Lab Objective: Enable Stop Protection for an EC2 instance. 🛠️ Task Requirements: Instance Name: datacenter-ec2 Region: us-east-1 Enable Stop Protection 💻 Steps Using AWS Console: Log in to the AWS Management Console. Select the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region. Navigate to EC2 Dashboard → Instances. Select the instance datacenter-ec2. Click Actions → Instance settings → Change stop protection. Enable Stop Protection. Save the changes. 💻 Using AWS CLI: aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute \ --instance-id (instance-id) \ --disable-api-stop '{"Value": true}' 🔍 Verify Stop Protection: aws ec2 describe-instance-attribute \ --instance-id (instance-id) \ --attribute disableApiStop ✅ Expected Output: "Value": false → Stop protection is enabled 📚 What You’ll Learn in This Video: What Stop Protection is in AWS Preventing accidental instance shutdowns Managing EC2 instance attributes Using AWS Console and CLI Best practices for production environments 🌟 Why This Lab Matters: Stop Protection helps prevent downtime caused by accidental actions. It’s especially important for critical production systems that must remain running. 🎯 Series: 100 Days of Cloud (AWS) Continue mastering AWS with hands-on labs covering compute, storage, networking, and security. 🔔 Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more tutorials from OtterTech! #AWS #EC2 #CloudComputing #AmazonWebServices #DevOps #CloudSecurity #InstanceProtection #Nautilus #100DaysOfCloud #OtterTech #Day8