title: Script to automate creation and management of EC2 EBS snapshots
body: <p>What is the best way to automate (daily) snapshots of my EBS volumes (2) and manage them.</p>
  
  <p>By 'manage' I mean that I am looking for a script that will not only create daily backups (I am guessing a cron job will be involved) but that will also delete snapshots that are older than x days so as to avoid excessive data usage.</p>
  
  <p>I believe that such scripts do exist somewhere out there but I cant seem to pin one down.</p>
  
  <p>Ty</p>