View EBS snapshot details for your AWS account or organization
This post describes how you can automatically generate an on-demand report of all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account or organizational unit (OU) in AWS Organizations.
Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block- storage service designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). An EBS volume provides durable and persistent storage that you can attach to your EC2 instances. You can use EBS volumes as primary storage for your data and take a point-in-time backup of your EBS volumes by creating a snapshot. You can use the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to view the details of specific EBS snapshots. This pattern provides a programmatic way to retrieve information about all EBS snapshots in your AWS account or OU.
You can use the script provided by this pattern to generate a comma-separated values (CSV) file that has the following information about each snapshot: account ID, snapshot ID, volume ID and size, the date the snapshot was taken, instance ID, and description. If your EBS snapshots are tagged, the report also includes the owner and team attributes.
Architecture
The following diagram shows the script workflow that generates an on-demand report of EBS snapshots that are spread across multiple AWS accounts in an OU.
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