A company takes daily snapshots of their Amazon EBS volumes. They have noticed that their snapshot storage costs are growing rapidly because old snapshots are never deleted. What is the MOST operationally efficient way to manage this?

Answer options:

Write a Lambda function to delete snapshots older than 30 days.

Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate snapshot management.

Use S3 Lifecycle policies to delete the snapshots.

Use AWS Backup to move the snapshots to Glacier.

How to approach this question

Identify the native tool for EBS snapshot management.

Full Answer

B.Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate snapshot management.✓ Correct

Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate the creation and deletion of EBS snapshots.

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. You can define backup and retention schedules for EBS snapshots.

Common mistakes

Thinking S3 lifecycle policies apply to EBS snapshots.

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