Without a doubt, AWS Tagging Strategies is pivotal in streamlining the cloud resources across teams and business units. By doing so, hundreds and thousands of cloud resources can be managed at the tip of the fingers in a very short duration. Especially as a business scales-up.
On the flip side, without a proper tagging strategy in place, it becomes very challenging. This could lead to various problems ranging from operational issues and unexpected cloud spends to accidental deletion of key resources.
Many of our customers continually share their experience about AWS — and they love the tagging feature in it. They talk about how beneficial it has been for them to classify their resources in multiple ways. For instance, they could categorize the AWS resources by purpose, possessor, or situation and then assign the tags.
Few customers love the way how keys could be defined with optional values to each tag. They like the way they could pre-define a set of tags for an Amazon EC2 instances and track each instance’s owner at the stack level.
When we asked these customers what they liked and disliked about Botmetric — and its tagging related features in particular? We got many responses. And they were happy about how Botmetric performed DevOps automation task with dexterity and enabled them to set customized audit preferences based on tags. However, few of them showed concern about accidental deletion of old EBS snapshots.
Just to set the context here: Botmetric lists all the old resources such as AWS EBS Snapshots and AMIs that are 90 days old while performing audits.By default, these old resources are either deleted or de-registered depending upon whether they are EBS snapshots or old AMIs and so forth. Why because, they are directly related to cost reduction.
In majority of the cases, these 90-days old snapshots and AMIs are of no use. In few cases, however, they might be of use even after 90 days depending on the business needs.In such cases, an accidental deletion of these resources might occur affecting the bussinesses backup needs.
This accidental deletion of 90 days old resources was one of the concerns for our customers. Catering to this need, we at Botmetric created a way to avoid this scenario using the AWS tagging principle.
So, what is it? How can you preserve your resources from accidental deletion? Explore Here.
