A company takes daily EBS snapshots of their EC2 instances. Over time, the storage costs for these snapshots have grown significantly. The company needs to retain snapshots for 30 days for operational recovery, and for 1 year for compliance. Which TWO actions should be taken to optimize costs? (Select TWO.)

Answer options:

Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate snapshot deletion after 30 days.

Move the snapshots to Amazon S3 Glacier.

Archive snapshots older than 30 days to the EBS Snapshots Archive tier.

Convert the EBS volumes to instance store volumes.

Change the EBS volume type to st1 before taking the snapshot.

How to approach this question

Identify the tools for managing EBS snapshots: DLM for automation and EBS Snapshots Archive for long-term cost savings.

Full Answer

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) automates the creation, retention, and deletion of EBS snapshots. For long-term compliance (1 year), you can route older snapshots to the EBS Snapshots Archive tier, which significantly reduces storage costs.

Common mistakes

Trying to use S3 lifecycle rules on EBS snapshots.

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