EBS Snapshot Management Using AWS Lambda and CloudWatch

You are the admin over a large amount of EC2 instances. You need to ensure that you have EBS Snapshots available for disaster recovery. To save time you want to automate this practice along with deleting EBS Snapshots that are more than 10 days old. The automation of this task will help save your company valuable labor hours that can be better spent elsewhere, saving the company money.

Note: If you already have at least one EC2 Instance, you can skip to Create An IAM Role.

4. Select t2 micro (Free tier eligible) and click Next: Configure Instance Details.
5. The defaults are fine. Click Next: Add Storage.
6. No changes. Click Next: Add Tags.
7. Optional: Click Add Tag. For Key: Name and for Value: EBS Snapshots. I like to do this so I can track all my resources used in a lab for easier cleanup. 8. Click Next: Configure Security Group
9. For your security group, you’ll want to make sure it’s secure. Either select an existing Security Group or modify the new Security Group. For this lab I recommend simply changing the SSH Source from Custom to My IP. This will prevent the EC2 Instance from being open to the world.

10. Click Review and Launch.
11. Click Launch

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