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• http://help.papertrailapp.com/kb/hosting-services/aws-elastic-beanstalk/
• https://github.com/papertrail/remote_syslog2/blob/master/examples/remote_syslog.ebextensions.config
• See also Logging Tool : Papertrail

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Snapshot EBS volumes attached to running EC2 instances

• Use snapshotting instead of a traditional file backup process.
• Configure a Jenkins job to run the auto-snapshot utility.
• https://github.com/CU-CloudCollab/cucloud_utils#auto-snapshot

Prune EBS snapshots

• Prune snapshots that are older than a specified age. Useful in conjunction with "Snapshot (backup) EBS volumes attached to running EC2 instances".
• https://github.com/CU-CloudCollab/cucloud_utils#clean-snapshots
• https://github.com/CU-CloudCollab/cucloud_utils/blob/master/bin/delete-ebs-snapshots-older-than.rb

Tie a cornell.edu hostname to an AWS service

• See How to Setup AWS Route53 to Work with Cornell-Managed DNS blog post.

Using IAM policy to restrict EC2 actions to specific users or role

• Restricting EC2 Actions using Custom IAM Policy

Expanded Notifications for EC2 Instance Retirement 

• AWS Instance Retirement CloudWatch Event