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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and API

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) has introduced a new feature that displays the full snapshot size for EBS Snapshots in both the Console and API.

  • Customers can now retrieve full snapshot sizes using the DescribeSnapshots API's new field 'full-snapshot-size-in-bytes'
  • A new 'Full snapshot size' column appears in the EBS Snapshots console
  • The feature shows the total size of all blocks in a snapshot, including blocks from previous snapshots
  • For a 100 GB volume with 50 GB of data, the full snapshot size will display 50 GB
  • Provides insights into snapshot storage and data written to the source volume

This enhancement is now generally available in all commercial AWS regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, offering improved visibility into EBS snapshot storage.

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