Applications can pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding the memory footprint all over again with Amazon EC2 Hibernate. Learn how you can now hibernate your Amazon EC2 instances backed by Amazon EBS and resume them at a later time. Applications that rely on caches and other memory-centric components can take tens of minutes to preload or warm up. You can now pause and resume EC2 Instances running Amazon Linux to get applications up and running quickly today. It’s like closing and opening your laptop!