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AWS Lambda – Copy more than 5 EC2 Snapshots automatically between regions

Posted on June 6, 2018

Published on: June 06, 2018 | Last updated on: June 06, 2018

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Pooja Verma (Git, Twitter)

AWS Lambda - Copy more than 5 EC2 Snapshots automatically between regions

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Copying EC2 snapshot between regions is quite an easy task now. In some scenarios, we may have to copy more than 5 snapshots automatically without any human entration.

Snapshot copy operation has a limitation of copying max 5 snapshots at one time. Hence you can not copy more than 5 snapshots at a time.

Following are the steps to automate to copy more than 5 Snapshots.

Let's say, we have around 50 snapshots in a region, and you want to automate to copying all Snapshots to another region on AWS.

Step 1: Create a tag in all 50 Snapshots Read more

AWS Lambda – Copy EC2 Snapshot automatically between regions

Posted on May 28, 2018

Published on: May 28, 2018 | Last updated on: May 28, 2018

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Pooja Verma (Git, Twitter)

AWS Lambda - Copy EC2 Snapshot automatically between regions

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There are many ways to copy EC2 snapshot from one region to another region.

What is AWS Lamda function?

AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS Lambda executes your code only when needed and scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second.

Following is the code to copy EC2 snapshots using AWS Lamda from region one to region two.

Below AWS Lamda function will describe all EC2 snapshots, which has tag key as city, and copy all snapshots from US East (N. Virginia) - [us-east-1] to Asia Pacific (Singapore) [ap-southeast-1] region. Read more

AWS Lambda - Copy more than 5 EC2 Snapshots automatically between regions

AWS Lambda - Copy EC2 Snapshot automatically between regions

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