Working with CloudWatch Events

In this lab, we will work with CloudWatch Event, we will use cloudwatch event to create snapshot of EC2 instance root EBS volume whenever there’s instance state change ie power-off, stopping or shutting down
Go to cloudwatch > Events > Rules > Create Rule
Select Service Name as EC2
Event Type as EC2 Instance State-change Notification
Specific State radio button & select state: shutting-down, Stopped & stopping
Specific instance Id radio button & input the instance id of instance we created for cloudwatch lab series

Now under Target
Select EC2 Create Snapshot API call
Input Volume ID of Cloudwatch EC2 instance
Input the Name of this event
Now stop the EC2 instance, this should initiate snapshot process
Snapshot 😀
Delete the EC2 instance