Why can't I see my EBS volume snapshots in S3 from AWS Management Console?

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SFun28 picture SFun28 · Mar 8, 2011 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

If EBS volume snapshots are stored in S3, then why can't I see them in the AWS Management Console? Am I missing something here?

Answer

Geoff Appleford picture Geoff Appleford · Mar 8, 2011

EBS snapshots are stored in S3 but not in a user-visible bucket.

To view your snapshots use the AWS api or they are in the EC2/Snapshots tab of the AWS Console. Something like: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#s=Snapshots, depending on your region.

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