You can snapshot EBS volumes and use them as a baseline for new volumes or data backups. Learn how to create volume snapshots in just 10 minutes.

  1. Go to the Volumes page and choose the item you want to analyze. In this example, the EBS volume is encrypted, as this is a good security practice.

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  2. Select the volume, click Actions and then Create Snapshot.

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  3. On the opened screen, add an optional description. Add the tags you want, and finally click Create Snapshot.

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  4. Verify that the snapshot creation completed successfully.

🎉 A snapshot was created from the volume of an instance.