Steps To Create Amazon EBS snapshots
Step 1: To create a snapshot of a volume, simply select the AWS console’s Volumes container, right-click on the volume and choose the Create Snapshot option from the shortcut menu.
Step 2: After entering the description of the snapshot, click Create to create the snapshot.
Step 3: A popup will come stating the snapshot creation as started.
Step 4: You can view the snapshot’s status on the console’s Snapshots tab.
One can not only create a snapshot but also can copy the already created snapshot. This copied snapshot can be shared with other accounts. If you share a snapshot with another account, then that person cannot directly create volume out of the shared snapshots. For creating volume from such a snapshot that person first needs to copy the snapshot so that the snapshot is now owned by him and can then create a volume out of it. Both encrypted and un-encrypted snapshots can be shared within the different AWS accounts. But, if you try to copy an encrypted snapshot without having the permissions to the encryption key, the copy process will “fail silently”.
AWS EBS (Elastic Block Store) Snapshot
Data is the most important thing anywhere over the internet. Everyone wants to be more secure and save when it comes to their Data security. Data on your Amazon EBS volume can also be back up to Amazon S3 Bucket by taking a point-in-time Snapshot. Snapshots can be used to create a backup of critical workloads, such as a large database or a file system that spans across multiple EBS volumes.