<ul><li>EBS Snapshots are point-in-time images of EBS volumes, only saving volume data, not instance settings or OS details.</li><li>Snapshots are cost-efficient as they are incremental, making them useful for backing up important data like database volumes.</li><li>AMIs are full copies of EC2 instances, including the OS, volumes, apps, and settings, useful for recreating or scaling entire instances.</li><li>Volumes restored from snapshots can be slow initially, but enabling Fast Snapshot Restore pre-warms the data for faster performance at an extra cost.</li></ul>

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