Backup virtual computers and disks with Lightsail for Research snapshots

Snapshots are a point-in-time copy of your data. You can create snapshots of your Amazon Lightsail for Research virtual computers and storage disks, and use them as baselines to create new computers or for data backup.

A snapshot contains all of the data that's needed to restore your computer (from the moment when the snapshot was taken). When you create a new virtual computer from a snapshot, it begins as an exact replica of the original computer that was used to create the snapshot.

Because your resources might fail at any time, we recommend creating frequent snapshots to avoid permanent data loss.