EC2 : Lifecycle Management for Snapshots

[ETisREAL]

Describe the feature

Hi, I believe it would be very useful to introduce the functionalities of Lifecycle Management in the CDK

Use Case

Configuring automatic snapshots for Volumes and/or Instances from the CDK

Proposed Solution

Implementing it directly in the Instance class or in the Volume class

Other Information

No response

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

CDK version used

2.85.0

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

Linux - Ubuntu 22.04

[peterwoodworth]

The only functionality that I can find related to this through CloudFormation is being able to configure the deletion policy of a Volume as snapshot. This can be configured through CDK already. Could you elaborate on what kind of lifecycle management you'd like to see?

[pahud]

@ETisREAL

I guess the best solution off the top of my head is using BackupPlan from AWS Backup to define your plan, target resource and schedule. Is there anything else in your mind?

[ETisREAL]

The only functionality that I can find related to this through CloudFormation is being able to configure the deletion policy of a Volume as snapshot. This can be configured through CDK already. Could you elaborate on what kind of lifecycle management you'd like to see?

Thanks for the quick reply and sorry I wasn't clear. What I think would be a very helpful addition would be integrating the Lyfecycle management functionality that are available from the console regarding Automated snapshots

[ETisREAL]

@ETisREAL

I guess the best solution off the top of my head is using BackupPlan from AWS Backup to define your plan, target resource and schedule. Is there anything else in your mind?

I guess if BackupPlan is an option that would do the job. Thank you @pahud

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