One of the primary methods I use for backups when working inside AWS is the use of snapshots. They're straight forward in AWS and they're available in the AWS CLI which means they are scriptable. In the past I'd write a simple BASH script and schedule it with Cron but this is the year of Serverless so I decided to re-write the process with AWS Lambda. While I'm not going to post the exact code I'll cover a few of the tidbits below.