AWS creates snapshots without my knowledge

Question

I just noticed that AWS has been creating snapshots for two of my volumes periodically since May 22, 2018 at 9:34:37 AM.

I have 1575 snapshots at this moment, the lifecycle manager shows no policy is planned, how could be this happen?

All I want at this moment is to try to turn it off, so no more snapshots.

Can anyone provide any insight into this?

Thanks in advance.

One of snapshot info like this:  
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Snapshot ID  
snap-030de904972a82d99  
Progress  
100%  
Status  
completed  
Capacity  
100 GiB  
Volume  
vol-0b8a3f39268c80392  
Encryption  
Not Encrypted  
Started  
July 13, 2020 at 9:34:36 AM UTC+8  
KMS Key ID  
Owner  
373426163372  
KMS Key Aliases  
Product codes  
-  
KMS Key ARN  
Description  
-  
Fast Snapshot Restore  
-  
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Accepted Answer

Hello Jerry,  
  
I have checked your AWS account and I can see that there are 4 CloudWatch rules scheduled to automate EBS Snapshots.  
  
Specifically, the CloudWatch rule which creates snapshots for the EBS "vol-0b8a3f39268c80392" is in the "ap-southeast-1" Region and it has the name "sg-snap"  
  
The 4 Rules are:  
us-east-1: rule/mysql-snap  
eu-central-1: rule/mysql-alarm-data  
eu-central-1: rule/mysql-dbsync-data  
ap-southeast-1: rule/sg-snap  
  
Please follow the below article to learn more about the specific CloudWatch rule:  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/TakeScheduledSnapshot.html  
  
Thank you,  
VasosAWS

Answer

Thanks a lot!    
  
I'm very grateful to you for your help.

AWS creates snapshots without my knowledge

One of snapshot info like this:

Snapshot ID snap-030de904972a82d99 Progress 100% Status completed Capacity 100 GiB Volume vol-0b8a3f39268c80392 Encryption Not Encrypted Started July 13, 2020 at 9:34:36 AM UTC+8 KMS Key ID Owner 373426163372 KMS Key Aliases Product codes

KMS Key ARN Description

Fast Snapshot Restore

Relevant content

Snapshot ID
snap-030de904972a82d99
Progress
100%
Status
completed
Capacity
100 GiB
Volume
vol-0b8a3f39268c80392
Encryption
Not Encrypted
Started
July 13, 2020 at 9:34:36 AM UTC+8
KMS Key ID
Owner
373426163372
KMS Key Aliases
Product codes

KMS Key ARN
Description