Report information about Snapshots, Volumes, AMIS...

We want reduce costs in our AWS account. Normally in DEVs accounts we have a lot of AMIs, Snapshots, Volumes that users forget to delete and it doesn't remove automatically when you destroy an EC2 Instance.

This small script help you to identify them to take some action.

Your boss Finance will appreciate it ;-)

Technologies we’ll use:

• AWS API (EC2)
• Python3.9

https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-python-3-9-on-ubuntu-20-04/ (Google)

Pre-requisites:

pip3 install boto3
pip3 install xlsxwriter

Deploy:

AWS_PROFILE=XXX python3 infoEC2SnapshotsReportUsage.py

Testing

If everything is working well, we will see a new Excel in your same location:

AWS_PROFILE=sso-nvoperations-pu python3 py
Excel File going to be created --> Status-EC2-ENVIRONMENT-14-Mar.xlsx
Workbook closed

Licence

Apache

Information

More info -->

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/ec2.html#EC2.Client.describe_snapshots

https://gist.github.com/nicbor/14987b2a382a384fd6299f6a76def099

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/How-do-we-use-re-finditer-method-in-Python-regular-expression

https://interactivechaos.com/en/python/function/remultiline

https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/methods/built-in/enumerate

David Álvarez Quiroga