Create VSS-enabled EBS snapshots - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Create VSS-enabled EBS snapshots

This section includes the steps to create VSS-enabled EBS snapshots.

You can create VSS-enabled EBS snapshots of EBS volumes attached to your EC2 instances. Before you attempt to create a VSS-enabled snapshot, ensure that the Prerequisites are met.

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