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Moving EC2 Snapshots to S3 bucket


I have careated backup for my EBS volumes . Now I have 5 snapshot in EBS . for more safety I want to move snapshots to s3 bucket.

How to move move snapshots from EBS to S3 bucket. ?


Solution

  • From the documentation about EBS snapshots, you'll notice:

    You can back up the data on your EBS volumes to Amazon S3 by taking point-in-time snapshots. Snapshots are incremental backups, which means that only the blocks on the device that have changed after your most recent snapshot are saved.

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    If you access a piece of data that hasn't been loaded yet, the volume immediately downloads the requested data from Amazon S3, and then continues loading the rest of the volume's data in the background.

    So, the snapshots are automatically stored in S3, but you can't access them as a storage bucket key.