Amazon EBS snapshots

Amazon EBS snapshots (Dec 2012) are incremental backups, which means that only the blocks on the device that have changed after your most recent snapshot are saved.

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSSnapshots.html

CLI

• aws ebs start-snapshot

Terraform

• Terraform resource: aws_ebs_snapshot
• Terraform data source: aws_ebs_snapshot

Timeline

• July 2018 Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager for EBS Snapshots

Related

• Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
• AWS Backups
• Terraform resource: aws_dlm_lifecycle_policy
• AWS EC2 snapshots
• aws ec2 create-image

See also

• EBS, EBS Snapshots (archive), aws ebs, io1, io2, gp2, gp3, st1, sc1, aws_ebs_snapshot, aws_dlm_lifecycle_policy
• Snapshot, mysqldump, mariabackup, mongodump, aws ebs start-snapshot, aws rds create-db-snapshot, aws rds restore-db-cluster-from-snapshot, aws rds promote-read-replica, aws rds promote-read-replica-db-cluster, Elasticsearch snapshots, Kubernetes Volume Group Snapshots API, EC2 snapshots, lvcreate --snapshot

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/12/17/announcing-ebs-snapshot-copy/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/introducing-amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-for-ebs-snapshots/