Amazon_EC2_15
EBS volume snapshots hold sensitive and critical data and it should be encrypted to avoid loss of sensitive data.
1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
2. Navigate to EC2 dashboard.
3. In the left navigation panel, under ELASTIC BLOCK STORE section, choose Snapshots.
4. Select the unencrypted EBS snapshot that you want to encrypt.
5. Click the Actions dropdown button from the dashboard top menu and select Copy.
6. Inside Copy Snapshot dialog box, perform the following actions:
7. In the Copy Snapshot confirmation dialog box, click Snapshots (link) to go to the Snapshots page in the specified AWS region or choose Close to return to EC2 dashboard.
8. Now that your EBS volume snapshot is encrypted, you can safely delete the original (unencrypted) snapshot.
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