Recommendations and best practices
Here are a few handy recommendations and best practices to keep in mind when working with volumes:
Create and use IAM policies and allow only a particular set of users from accessing your EBS volumes.
Create and take periodic snapshots of your volumes. Always remember to provide suitable names and descriptions for your snapshots so that they can be easily identified and re-used.
Always take snapshots during the nonbusiness hours of your application.
Clean up unused or older snapshots to save on unnecessary costs.
Encrypt your EBS volumes if you have some sensitive data stored on them.
Select and use the correct type of EBS volume as per your application's needs. Use performance-optimized volumes for your high-performance applications and magnetic volumes for applications that do not need a lot of data read and write.
