How to setup automatic scheduled snapshots for each single AMI/EBS?

Question

Does Amazon support any kind of automatic scheduled snapshots that can be configured for each single AMI/EBS?

my goal is to have each AMI backup itself regularly without

Answer 1

use this python code

from boto.ec2.connection import EC2Connection
from datetime import datetime
import sys

if __name__ == '__main__':

    conn = EC2Connection('aws_access_key_id', 'aws_secret_access_key')

    volumes_id={'vol-2354534'}

    description = 'Created by crontab  at ' + datetime.today().isoformat(' ') 

    for vol_id in volumes_id :

        snapshot  = conn.create_snapshot( vol_id ,description)