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Recipe: Creating AWS EC2 Snapshots Manually

Expected deliverables:

A manually created AWS EC2 Snapshot, managed outside the backup policy.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• A AWS EC2 Instance

Before you start: You can configure retention for the manually created snapshot. If you don’t set the retention, then the snapshot is kept in your AWS environment unless you remove it manually.

Assumptions:

You have an existing Veeam Backup for AWS deployment.

Method:

1. Login the Veeam Backup for AWS web interface.
2. Navigate to Resources > EC2
3. Select the necessary VM instance and click Take Snapshot Now. The Take Manual Snapshot wizard will be started.
4. At Account step, select a service account with permissions to create snapshots
5. At Snapshot Mode step, choose whether the snapshot will be created in the same location as the EC2 instance, or in a different Region or AWS Account.
6. At Settings step, set the retention for the snapshot, and in case the Snapshot will be created in a different region, select the region and the IAM role with proper privileges.
7. At Encryption step, as an option you can enable encryption for the snapshot using an AWS KMS Key.
8. At Tags step, choose whether you want to assign AWS Tags to the created snapshot.
9. At the Summary step, click Finish to complete the process and create the snapshot.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums