AWS adds Managed Policies to VSS to help ensure valid application consistent backups

AWS now provides customers with a new AWS managed policy for Microsoft Windows Volume Snapshot Copy Service (VSS) in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) . With this policy, customers no longer have to configure individual permissions or create their own policies to manage VSS. Customers can simply use this new policy to ensure the necessary permissions are in place for creating application-consistent snapshots using the AWS VSS solution. 

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