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CloudWatch Events

The document contains a CloudWatch event triggered by an EC2 instance stopping in us-east-1 region. It also contains Lambda code to start the stopped instance. A separate CloudWatch schedule event is shown to create EBS snapshots of tagged instances and retain them according to the tag retention period.

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CloudWatch Events

The document contains a CloudWatch event triggered by an EC2 instance stopping in us-east-1 region. It also contains Lambda code to start the stopped instance. A separate CloudWatch schedule event is shown to create EBS snapshots of tagged instances and retain them according to the tag retention period.

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CloudWatch Lambda Event:

{
"version": "0",
"id": "556d4090-aff5-4a2f-764e-c20cda89a5e9",
"detail-type": "EC2 Instance State-change Notification",
"source": "aws.ec2",
"account": "721834156908",
"time": "2020-12-22T16:01:45Z",
"region": "us-east-1",
"resources": [
"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:721834156908:instance/i-046301d1732bb7734"
],
"detail": {
"instance-id": "i-046301d1732bb7734",
"state": "stopped"
}
}

Code for Starting the EC2 Machine using Lambda:


import json
import boto3

def lambda_handler(event, context):


inst = event['detail']['instance-id']
client = boto3.client('ec2')
response = client.start_instances(
InstanceIds=[
inst
])
print(f'Server {inst} was been started')

CloudWatch Schedule Event:


import boto3
import collections
import datetime

ec = boto3.client('ec2')

def lambda_handler(event, context):


reservations = ec.describe_instances(
Filters=[
{'Name': 'tag-key', 'Values': ['backup', 'Backup']},
]
).get(
'Reservations', []
)

instances = sum(
[
[i for i in r['Instances']]
for r in reservations
], [])

print "Found %d instances that need backing up" % len(instances)

to_tag = collections.defaultdict(list)

for instance in instances:


try:
retention_days = [
int(t.get('Value')) for t in instance['Tags']
if t['Key'] == 'Retention'][0]
except IndexError:
retention_days = 10

for dev in instance['BlockDeviceMappings']:


if dev.get('Ebs', None) is None:
continue
vol_id = dev['Ebs']['VolumeId']
print "Found EBS volume %s on instance %s" % (
vol_id, instance['InstanceId'])
snap = ec.create_snapshot(
VolumeId=vol_id,
)

to_tag[retention_days].append(snap['SnapshotId'])

print "Retaining snapshot %s of volume %s from instance %s for %d


days" % (
snap['SnapshotId'],
vol_id,
instance['InstanceId'],
retention_days,
)

for retention_days in to_tag.keys():


delete_date = datetime.date.today() +
datetime.timedelta(days=retention_days)
delete_fmt = delete_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
print "Will delete %d snapshots on %s" % (len(to_tag[retention_days]),
delete_fmt)
ec.create_tags(
Resources=to_tag[retention_days],
Tags=[
{'Key': 'DeleteOn', 'Value': delete_fmt},
{'Key': 'Name', 'Value': "LIVE-BACKUP"}
]
)

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