aws-snap

CLI (simple command line client) for making snapshots of AWS EC2 instances


License
MIT
Install
pip install aws-snap==1.1.2

Documentation

aws-snap

Create snapshots of AWS EC2 instance volumes.

installation

pip install aws-snap

this should install the CLI tool aws-snap and snapit
the two are interchangable

usage

snapit -h # show help and exit

snapit i-0d2bd932gf7de4c95 # create snapshot of instance with ID i-0d2bd932gf7de4c95

snapit i-0d2bd932gf7de4c95 i-67dfg98s0ijj6y2j0 # snapshots of multiple instances

snapit i-0d2bd932gf7de4c95 -r us-west-1 # specify a region other than the one set in your profile

snapit i-0d2bd932gf7de4c95 -s # stop the instance before snapping