Goodbye AWS Lambda Snapshots, Hello AWS Data Lifecyle Manager?
If you have been keeping up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) news, you should know that AWS released a new feature called Data Lifecyle Manager in 2018 to automate your snapshots based on a lifecycle policy.
Previously automated snapshots could do taken through Cloudwatch Events to call the CreateSnapshot API. However this had a major downside that EBS volume tags are not copied over. Therefore, many companies opted to create their Lambda to be called through Cloudwatch Events.
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