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Kodekloud - 100 Days of cloud (AWS) Day 15: Create Volume Snapshot

PublishedJanuary 14, 2026

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What is AWS EBS Snapshots?

It is AWS-managed disk storage storing the state safely of data, configuration, filesystem.
Snapshots are incremental after the first one is created. The second one only adds the changes to previous snapshot and then creates new version.
They are region-specific but can also be copied to other regions.
You can also create volume from the snapshot

TASK

Step 1: Login into the AWS environment using provided credentials.

Step 2: Go to Elastic Block Store section and select the volume. Then click on volume and select create snapshot . volume —→ Actions —→ Create snapshot

Step 3: Then add Description and Tag (Name) for the snapshot you are creating.

Step 4: Now check the snapshot is created properly and has completed status.

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