Amazon EBS announces Time-based Copy for EBS Snapshots

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of Time-based Copy. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied within and across AWS Regions within a specified timeframe.

Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes, and copy them across multiple AWS Regions and accounts, for disaster recovery, data migration and compliance purposes. Time-based Copy gives you predictability when copying your snapshots across Regions. With this feature, you can specify a desired completion duration, ranging from 15 minutes to 48 hours, for individual copy requests, ensuring that your EBS Snapshots meet their duration requirements or Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). You can now also monitor your Copy operations via EventBridge and the new SnapshotCopyBytesTransferred CloudWatch metric, available by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charge.

Amazon EBS Time-based Copy is available in all AWS commercial Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. For pricing information, please visit the EBS pricing page. To learn more, see the technical documentation for Time-based Copy for Snapshots.