Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts

Update: As of March 10th 2021, DLM Cross Account Copy is now available in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

For more information on how to setup policies, including configuration changes required in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), please refer to this blog post.

Through 2020, we have expanded DLM to provide customers with more flexibility, adding support for one hour backup intervals, cron expressions and weekly, monthly and annual schedules. Customers can also create policies to automate the creation and retention of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) from their instances. With today’s launch, customers now have even more control over the lifecycle and protection of their EBS snapshots.

This feature is now generally available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) with more regions coming soon.

This feature is now generally available in all AWS commercial regions and AWS GovCloud (US). Learn more about Data Lifecycle Manager here.