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Automate AMI backups of AWS EC2 instances using Lambda and deploy it using Terraform

The code in lambda_function.py creates automated backups of EBS backed EC2 instances on a schedule and deletes old AMIs and their corresponding EBS snapshots. A summary of features of this code:

  1. Create backup AMIs of all EC2 instances that have a tag with key Backup and value True.
  2. Take the value of tag Retention from the EC2 instances that specifies the number of days a backup AMI of the EC2 instance should be kept for. This value is then used to add a tag with key DeleteOn to each backup AMI created with a value that contains the date on or after which the backup AMI should be deleted.
  3. Delete all backup AMIs and their corresponding EBS snapshots that have a DeleteOn tag value less than the execution date of the function.

The file lambda.tf contains the Terraform script used to deploy this function. The script includes:

  1. Create IAM Roles and Policies
  2. Create Lambda function
  3. Create a Cloudwatch event rule to trigger the Lambda fucntion once a week

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