Amazon EBS snapshots
You can back up the data on your Amazon EBS volumes by making point-in-time copies, known as Amazon EBS snapshots. A snapshot is an incremental backup , which means that we save only the blocks on the volume that have changed since the most recent snapshot.
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Create snapshots of an Amazon EBS volume or create multi-volume snapshots to use as a baseline for new volumes or for data backup.
How Amazon EBS snapshots work
The following sections show how an EBS snapshot captures the state of a volume at a point in time, and how subsequent snapshots of a changing volume create a history of those changes. Multiple snapshots of the same volume
Amazon EBS Snapshots - Amazon Web Services
Amazon EBS Snapshots are a convenient way to backup your EBS volumes. The snapshots are automatically saved to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for long-term retention.
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View detailed information about Amazon EBS snapshots. Describe snapshots that you have created using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, CLI, or API.
Amazon EBS snapshot lifecycle - Amazon EBS - Amazon Web …
The lifecycle of an Amazon EBS snapshot starts with the creation process. You create snapshots from Amazon EBS volumes. You can use snapshots to restore new Amazon EBS volumes. You can create copies of snapshots either in the same Region, or in different Regions.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Amazon Web Services
For simple and robust backup, use EBS Snapshots with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) policies to automate snapshot management. As a backup provider, use EBS direct APIs for Snapshots to achieve faster backups of EBS volumes and achieve more granular recovery point objectives (RPO).
Copy an Amazon EBS snapshot
With Amazon EBS, you can create point-in-time snapshots of volumes, which we store for you in Amazon S3. After you create a snapshot and it has finished copying to Amazon S3 (when the snapshot status is completed ), you can copy it from one …
Amazon EBS features - Amazon Web Services, Inc.
The following are key features of Amazon EBS Snapshots: Direct read access of EBS Snapshots - Customers can use EBS direct APIs for Snapshots to read data off snapshots and identify differences between two EBS snapshots without needing to create EBS volumes and EC2 instances. EBS direct APIs for Snapshots enable backup partners to track ...
Write snapshots with EBS direct APIs - Amazon EBS
The snapshot is started in a pending state. Specify the snapshot ID in subsequent put-snapshot-block commands to write data to the snapshot, then use the complete-snapshot command to complete the snapshot and change its status to completed.