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xz vs gzip
What is a VPC: your own private network inside one AWS Region, example ThreeTierVpc 10.0.0.0/16.
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What this card says
Compress
xz
Smallest files.
gzip
Faster.
Key points
Slow, use -T0.
Read with zcat.
Example
xz -T0 -k big.log
Use when
Long-term archive.
Daily log rotation.