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Cleaning AWS snapshots older than a given date
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1_find_old_snapshots
aws ec2 describe-snapshots --owner-ids <owner> --query 'Snapshots[?StartTime<=`2017-01-01T00:00-07:00`]' > out
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2_delete_old_snapshots
# this will not delete snapshots that are in use by an AMI
cat out | jq -r '.[].SnapshotId' | while read snap; do aws ec2 delete-snapshot --snapshot-id $snap; done
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