Set up automated Amazon EBS snapshot on a schedule

[anthonyfok]

We need to develop or adapt a standard policy procedure to backup especially our more mission-critical EC2 instances and attached volumes on AWS, and to restore them from backup, either with AWS web UI, with AWS CLI, or other means.

There seems to be quite a few ways on setting up that automated schedule, e.g.:

• Tutorial: Schedule Automated Amazon EBS Snapshots Using CloudWatch Events - Amazon CloudWatch Events
• Amazon EventBridge Documentation
• EBS Snapshot Scheduler - EBS Snapshot Scheduler on AWS
• How do I automate Amazon EBS Snapshots using DLM (Data Lifecycle Manager)? - YouTube
• amazon ec2 - How to schedule automatic (daily) snapshots of AWS EC2 Windows Instance? - Server Fault

Also, to consider copying these snapshots to S3 buckets for longer-term archival storage: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

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