Currently, Amazon EBS Local Snapshots capability on Outposts is now available in all AWS commercial regions where AWS Outposts is available.

Brien Posey shows how to use the EBS Lifecycle Manager in the AWS cloud to build automated lifecycle policies for your EBS snapshots and avoid money-wasting proliferation.

In a blog post, the company explained that many customers use Amazon EBS for mission-critical applications and they regularly back up their data using EBS multi-volume snapshots.

AWS announced four new storage services and capabilities that deliver more choice, reduce costs, and help customers better protect their data.

Clumio’s new service is claimed to deliver 30% savings with AWS integration at a similar cost as local in-account Amazon EBS snapshots.

EBS provides very durable and persistent block storage in the AWS cloud environment and is constructed on new cloud compute architecture using the latest technologies.

Morris built a tool using Amazon’s own internal search feature to query and scrape publicly exposed EBS snapshots, then attach it, make a copy and list the contents of the volume on his system.