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Configure termination protection

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Configure termination protection

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- [Presenter] If you watched the last video, then you know how easy it is to delete an instance. It's so easy in fact that it's easy to accidentally delete an incorrect instance. After all, the only thing that I had to do was select an instance and then change the instance state to terminate and then click a terminate button and the instance was gone, there was no going back at that point. Fortunately, there is a way of protecting an instance against being accidentally terminated. It's done by using a feature called termination protection. Let me show you how this works. So what I'm going to do is click on launch instances and this takes me to the screen where you can set up a brand new instance and once again, I'm going to make this a Windows instance. I'll scroll down, I'll select my key pair, I'll click edit in the network settings and select my VPC and I'll select my security group and then I'm going to expand the advanced details section. And I'll scroll down and you'll notice…

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