What is the difference between terminating and stopping an EC2 instance?

Read this article to find out what are the differences between terminating and stopping an EC2 instance. This article is written by by well known DevOps trainer - Rajesh Kumar.

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Terminate Instance

When you terminate an EC2 instance, the instance will be shutdown and the virtual machine that was provisioned for you will be permanently taken away and you will no longer be charged for instance usage. Any data that was stored locally on the instance will be lost. Any attached EBS volumes will be detached and deleted.  Read more click here

Reference:- This article was originally posted in scmGalaxy.com

Chef Internal - How Chef maintain the state of each resources internally?

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Chef Client

A chef-client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by Chef. The chef-client executable can be run as a daemon. When a chef-client is run, it will perform all of the steps that are required to bring the node into the expected state, including:

• Registering and authenticating the node with the Chef server
• Building the node object Read more click here 

Reference:- This article was originally posted on scmGalaxy.com