On 03/07/2023 06:39, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> I was going through our spending in AWS and I found that we spent a lot
> in Sydney region (?). In details most of the bill there is because of
> stored snapshots. There is 7508 of them dated to back to 2013. For
> volumes that does not exists any more.
>
> The only instances (and volumes) we have in Sydney today are:
>
> *
mref1.aps2.stream.centos.org
>
> *
mref2.apse2.stream.centos.org
>
> With no tags or description.
>
> I can easily remove the acrued snapshots. But I do not know the details.
> I can setup Recycle Bin rule to delete snapshots older than 1-365 days.
> I can set it to 365. Objections?
>
> And one of the latest snapshot is
>
> snap-04716c8d5d0f23c6e (fedora-coreos-38.20230609.3.0-x86_64)
<
https://ap-southeast-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=ap-southeas...
>
> which is for volume
>
> vol-ffffffff
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https://ap-southeast-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=ap-southeas...
>
> that does not exist any more. There is more of such snapshots. So
> whoever is making some process, you are good in deleting volumes, but
> you are leaving snapshots behinds. Likely the ones no one needs.
>
> --
> Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
> Red Hat, Manager, Packit and CPT, #brno, #fedora-buildsys
>
Hi Miroslav,
As you can see, there are indeed two EC2 instances running there but
unrelated to your snapshot issue, so worth verifying with the CoreOS folks ?
Yeah, lets get the Fedora coreos folks to look, it seems like those are
their images. Perhaps they are making them, but not cleaning up old ones
in that region?
kevin