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You can enable fast restore on the EBS snapshot that backs your AMI: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-fast-sn...

It’s not cheap, but it speeds things up.

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$540/month per EBS volume per AZ. And it’s still fairly limited, at a maximum of 8 credits, it wouldn’t nearly cover the use case described in the article (launching 50 instances quickly).

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