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Automatically Make Snapshots for EC2

Max Rohde

Max Rohde

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Automatically Make Snapshots for EC2

A quick Google search reveals that there are quite a few different approaches for automatically creating snapshots for EC2 images (such as here, here and here).

All of these are rather difficult to do.

Thankfully, after some more searching around I found a great way to schedule regular snapshots using AWS CloudWatch.

CloudWatch supports a built-in target for 'Create a snapshot of an EBS volume':

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For details of how this can be set up, see the excellent step-by-step instructions on the CloudWatch Documentation.

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