Better Management and Monitoring
You will have more snapshots as your AWS setup grows in more servers. At some point, it will be very hard to manage and identify the source of the snapshot. It will get even more complicated if you have the Storage Getaway setup. This is due to the fact that at least one snapshot is created per attached EBS volume to your Storage Gateway on a daily basis.
There are several steps in handling a significant amount of EC2 snapshots. The first step is to tag all your snapshots in order to identify them easily. The second step is to remove your old snapshots as well as the snapshots taken from the EBS volume that does not exist anymore. This allows you to keep the recent snapshots or the ones that you need.
Elastic Cloud Gate provides you with a wide variety of tools for better management. These tools allow you to maintain your EBS of Storage Gateway snapshots effectively. You can identify or filter snapshots, delete old snapshots or copy them to various AWS regions easily.
Now, maintaining your EBS snapshots is easier. You can create schedules according to your needs. You no longer have to delete old snapshots manually. In fact, you can set everything up automatically with no worries. In addition, you can also create and assign custom tags to EBS snapshots.