Snapshot Management Using Lifecycle Manager

• Open the EC2 console page from AWS Console

1. Accessing the EC2 Console

• Click on Lifecycle Manager on the left side menu and there is no lifecycle policies defined on the welcome screen.

2. Checking Lifecycle Manager

• Click on Snapshots on the left side menu

3. Verifying Existing Snapshots

• Filter the snapshots using the "environment" tag key and you will see there is no snapshot

4. Creating a Prod Snapshot Policy

• Click on Lifecycle Manager on the left side menu and click Next step

4.1. Policy Setup & Target Tags

• Click on Target resource tags and select environment and prod as the tag key

• Click Add

4.2. Policy Description & IAM Role

• Write prod-snapshot-policy at Policy description

• Select Choose another role and select AWSDataLifecycleManagerDefaultRole

• Click Next

4.3. Schedule Configuration

• Fill the information:

• Schedule name- Schedule 1

• Frequency - Daily

• Every - 1 hour

• Starting at - 09:00

• Retention type - Age

• Expire from standard tier - 1

• after creation - days

and Click checkbox of Copy tags from source

4.4. Policy Review and Creation

• Click Review policy

• Click Create policy`

4.5 Policy Creation Result

• Now The policy should be created like this

5. Creating a Dev Snapshot Policy

• Let create another policy for environment:dev

• Select Custom policy

• Select EBS snapshot policy

• Click Next

5.1 Policy Type & Target Tags

• - Click on Target resource tags and select environment and dev as the tag key and click Add

5.2. Policy Description & IAM Role

• Write dev-snapshot-policy at Policy description

• Select Choose another role and select AWSDataLifecycleManagerDefaultRole

• Click Next

5.3. Schedule Configuration

• Fill the information:

• Schedule name- Schedule 1

• Frequency - Daily

• Every - 1 hour

• Starting at - 09:00

• Retention type - Age

• Expire from standard tier - 1

• after creation - days

and Click checkbox of Copy tags from source

5.4. Policy Review and Creation

• Click Review policy

• Click Create policy`

6. Policy Creation Result

• Now The policy should be created like this

7. Verifying Automated Snapshots

• After a couple of hours of the prod and dev snapshot policies being created, you should be able to see the first snapshots created by Lifecycle Manager. The snapshots will have a tag key dlm:managed set to a value of "true".

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