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Wojciech A.
Wojciech A.

Reputation: 174

AWS snapshots created without policy

in my AWS snapshots, I see, that there are snapshots created without policy, and I don't know, hot to disable them.

In my "Lifecycle Manager" I see only one policy, and it creates snapshot every day, and keep them for 2 weeks. Those snapshots have description added "Created for policy: policy-0fd537dfc2b885c39 schedule: Daily". And kept only for 2 weeks, then deleted automatically.

But there are also some snapshots without description, which aren't deleted and kept forever. Their creation date is about 11:45PM (East Europe time).

Snapshot list, with unknown snapshots in red border. created snapshots

The only policy defined: the only snapshot policy

Are they created by some automatic volume backup, or how? I didn't have any cron jobs on the server.

What can I do to disable them? Where to find their configuration?

I appreciate any help :)
Kind regards,
Wojtek

Upvotes: 0

Views: 302

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 269520

You can use AWS CloudTrail to look for the API events that created the Snapshots. A user identity (eg IAM Role or IAM User) will be associated with those events.

That should help you figure out how/what is creating those snapshots each night at 12:45am.

Upvotes: 0

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