Storage snapshot management
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorPuneet Agarwal
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Abstract
A technology is described for managing storage snapshots of storage volumes. In one example of the technology, a request may be received to create a storage snapshot of a storage volume associated with a tag. The tag may be assigned to a computing instance hosted in a service provider environment, and the storage volume may be assigned for use by the computing instance. In response to the request to create the storage snapshot, the storage volume associated with the tag may be identified, and the storage snapshot of the storage volume associated with the tag may be created.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a memory device including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
- receive a request to create a storage snapshot of a storage volume associated with a tag assigned to a computing instance,
- wherein the storage volume is assigned for use by the computing instance, which is hosted in a service provider environment;
- identify the storage volume associated with the tag;
- and
- initiate creation of the storage snapshot of the storage volume associated with the tag.
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- retrieving a storage snapshot policy for managing creation of storage snapshots of a storage volume associated with a tag assigned to a computing instance,
- wherein the computing instance is hosted in a service provider environment, and the storage volume is assigned to the computing instance for use by the computing instance;
- identifying the storage volume using the tag specified in the storage snapshot policy;
- and
- initiating creation of a storage snapshot of the storage volume associated with the tag.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon, wherein the instructions when executed by at least one processor:
- receive a request to create storage snapshots of storage volumes assigned to computing instances associated with a tag, wherein the computing instances are hosted in a service provider environment;
- identify a computing instance that is associated with the tag;
- determine that multiple storage volumes are assigned to the computing instance;
- and
- initiate creation of the storage snapshots of the multiple storage volumes assigned to the computing instance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.