AWS DLM LifeCycle Policy for Creating Snapshots for EBS Volumes on an EC2 Instance
It seems AWS CloudFormation does not readily support creating EBS Volume Snapshots via BlockDeviceMappings‘s EBS property. Luckily there is an alternative approach that allows you to setup a DLM LifeCycle Policy which scans for EC2 Instance Tags (apparently there is also no support to really tag the Volumes directly via CloudFormation that…