CLI (simple command line client) for making snapshots of AWS EC2 instances
pip install aws-snap==1.1.2
Create snapshots of AWS EC2 instance volumes.
pip install aws-snap
this should install the CLI tool aws-snap
and snapit
the two are interchangable
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