I'm creating periodic snapshots of my EBS volume using a Scheduled Cron expression rule (thanks, John C).
My data is all binary, and I suspect that the automatic compression AWS performs on my data - will actually enlarge the resulting snapshots.
Is there a way to instruct AWS to not employ compression when creating snapshots (so I could compare the snapshot's size with/without compression)?
Note:
Creating an Amazon EBS Snapshot seems to indicate that using compression is mandatory.
You have no control over the compression used for EBS snapshots.
EBS snapshots are incremental (except for the first snapshot). That data is compressed based on AWS's own heuristics. You have no visibility into the actual compressed data's size.
When you're looking at an EBS snapshot, the snapshot's "size" will always be reported as the originating EBS volume's size, regardless of the actual size of the snapshot.