Protect Your EC2 Instance from Accidental Stop and Termination - Hands-on Lab

Опубликовано: 03 Июнь 2026
на канале: Ahmad Kouta
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Learn how to safeguard your Amazon EC2 instances from accidental stops and terminations. We'll walk you through enabling Stop Protection and Termination Protection to keep your instances secure and operational, even when working in a busy cloud environment. This practical guide will help you reduce the risk of unintended downtime and data loss. Whether you're new to AWS or looking to strengthen your instance management skills, this tutorial has you covered!

🛠️ What You’ll Learn:
How to enable/disable Stop Protection on your EC2 instance
How to enable/disable Termination Protection on your EC2 instance
AWS CLI commands for managing these protections

📌 Chapters:
0:00 Why Use Stop & Termination Protections?
1:00 Enable Stop Protection via AWS Console
2:06 Disable Stop Protection via AWS Console
2:25 Enable Termination Protection via AWS Console
2:53 Disable Termination Protection via AWS Console
3:33 List the EC2 Instance via AWS CLI
4:52 Status of the Stop Protection via CLI
6:16 Explaining the Status of the Stop Protection in CLI
6:59 Enable Stop Protection via AWS CLI
8:31 Disable Stop Protection via AWS CLI
9:08 Status of Termination Protection via AWS CLI
10:41 Enable Termination Protection via AWS CLI
11:47 Disable Termination Protection via AWS CLI
12:24 Outro


🔗 Resources:

Stop Protection for your EC2 instances (AWS Console & CLI)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/la...

Termination Protection for your EC2 instances (AWS Console)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/la...

CLI Commands
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/lates...


Thank you for watching!
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