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  • As others have said, using dd will be a bit for bit copy of the drive, regardless of the filesystem. If you were only using 10GB, and the rest of the drive was “empty”, the output of dd will still be a 256GB file. You could compress this file with gzip if storage is a concern.

    With regard to your plan with Windows, there is a hardware check that OS will perform and if the hardware drifts too much, the OS will not be activated anymore and will need a new license. I’m not familiar with recent versions of Windows, but if you have a Pro version of the OS, it might not work on new hardware.








  • While this is more an issue with compromise credentials and not a flaw in AWS exactly, I think AWS should just deprecate the use of IAM Access Keys altogether, and have newly issued keys auto expire after 90 days, requiring human intervention to extend the lifetime if absolutely necessary. Had these companies used IAM roles for their services, they would not be in this situation, but that approach requires more effort, so people go with the lazy access key solution.