AWS RDS BOTO Script to Delete Snapshots

A python script which uses BOTO SDK to delete rds snapshots older than X days

Dependencies

boto.rds2

Features available in the script

This script you can use it to list all the snapshots which can be deleted. As well as you can use it to delete those snapshots. This script can easily be use to automate the RDS snapshot cleanup process. To Automate you just have to schedule it under cron job in Linux or on windows you can schedule from Task Scheduler

#How to run the script Following is the snippet on how to run the script to get the list of available snapshots to be deleted

python delete_rds_snapshot.py us-east-1 db-master-1 7 list

Below snippet on how to run the script to delete the snapshots for the X mentioned days

python delete_rds_snapshot.py us-east-1 db-master-1 7 delete

Script Usage

usage: delete_rds_snapshots.py [-h] region rds_instance_name days action
positional arguments:
    region              US-EAST-1 or US-WEST-2
    rds_instance_name   ex: db-master-1
    days                X number of days snapshots need to be deleted
    action              list: prints all the available snapshots to delete
                        delete: delete all the snapshots which are older than the x days
optional arguments:
     -h, --help         show this help message and exit