Aws Volume tagging Script.

Following Script will give the aws cli command to tag the volumes with tags associated to its instance.

Prerequisite
1. All instance are tagged properly
2. Aws Cli is installed and Configured properly
3. Configure the Aws Cli output to Json
4. Create the File Full_Json_Instances.json with output of describe-instances

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#/bin/python
import json

def fun_Instance_Volume_Tagging(Instance_ID, Instance):
    for Volumes in Instance["Instances"][0]["BlockDeviceMappings"]:
        VOL_ID = Volumes["Ebs"]["VolumeId"]
        for Tags in Instance["Instances"][0]["Tags"]:
            TAG_KEY = Tags["Key"]
            TAG_VALUE = Tags["Value"]
            print "aws ec2 create-tags --resources " + VOL_ID + " --tags Key=" + TAG_KEY + ",Value=" + TAG_VALUE +""

with open("Full_Json_Instances.json") as json_file:
    json_data = json.load(json_file)
    for Instances in json_data["Reservations"]:
        Instance_ID = Instances["Instances"][0]["InstanceId"];
        fun_Instance_Volume_Tagging(Instance_ID, Instances)
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AWS EBS SnapShot Scipt for Linux

The script itself is fairly straightforward, but took several dry-runs in order to fine tune it so that it would reliably create the snapshots, but more importantly would clear out old snapshots older than 7 days.

You can see the for loop for deleting older snapshots. This is done by parsing snapshot dates, converting the dates to a pure numeric value and comparing said numeric value to a “7 days ago” date variable.

Take a look at the script below, hopefully it will be useful to you! There could be more error checking, but that should be fairly easy to do.

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#!/bin/sh # EBS Snapshot volume script # Written by Star Dot Hosting # www.stardothosting.com   # Constants ec2_bin="/opt/aws/bin" my_cert="/opt/aws/cert.txt" my_key="/opt/aws/key.txt" instance_id=`wget -q -O- http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id`   # Dates datecheck_7d=`date +%Y-%m-%d --date '7 days ago'` datecheck_s_7d=`date --date="$datecheck_7d" +%s`   # Get all volume info and copy to temp file $ec2_bin/ec2-describe-volumes -C $my_cert -K $my_key  --filter "attachment.instance-id=$instance_id" > /tmp/volume_info.txt 2>&1     # Get all snapshot info $ec2_bin/ec2-describe-snapshots -C $my_cert -K $my_key | grep "$instance_id" > /tmp/snap_info.txt 2>&1   # Loop to remove any snapshots older than 7 days for obj0 in $(cat /tmp/snap_info.txt) do           snapshot_name=`cat /tmp/snap_info.txt | grep "$obj0" | awk '{print $2}'`         datecheck_old=`cat /tmp/snap_info.txt | grep "$snapshot_name" | awk '{print $5}' | awk -F "T" '{printf "%sn", $1}'`         datecheck_s_old=`date "--date=$datecheck_old" +%s`   #       echo "snapshot name: $snapshot_name" #       echo "datecheck 7d : $datecheck_7d" #       echo "datecheck 7d s : $datecheck_s_7d" #       echo "datecheck old : $datecheck_old" #       echo "datecheck old s: $datecheck_s_old"           if (( $datecheck_s_old <= $datecheck_s_7d ));         then                 echo "deleting snapshot $snapshot_name ..."                 $ec2_bin/ec2-delete-snapshot -C $my_cert -K $my_key $snapshot_name         else                 echo "not deleting snapshot $snapshot_name ..."           fi   done     # Create snapshot for volume in $(cat /tmp/volume_info.txt | grep "VOLUME" | awk '{print $2}') do         description="`hostname`_backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d`"         echo "Creating Snapshot for the volume: $volume with description: $description"         $ec2_bin/ec2-create-snapshot -C $my_cert -K $my_key -d $description $volume done