Reduce costs with customized delete protection for Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs

The article discusses a new feature in AWS Recycle Bin that allows customized delete protection for Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs, helping organizations safeguard critical resources while managing storage costs.

• Users can create Region-level retention rules with exclusion tags
• Critical resources can be protected from accidental deletion
• Non-critical resources (like temporary snapshots) can be excluded from Recycle Bin
• Exclusion tags like "Temp: Yes" or "NonProd: True" can be used to mark non-essential resources
• Helps reduce storage costs by limiting retention to essential resources

The feature provides a flexible approach to resource protection, allowing organizations to balance data security with cost management by selectively protecting critical snapshots and AMIs.