Exclusions - Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
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Exclusions

[Default policies only] Specifies exclusion parameters for volumes or instances for which you do not want to create snapshots or AMIs. The policy will not create snapshots or AMIs for target resources that match any of the specified exclusion parameters.

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ExcludeBootVolumes

[Default policies for EBS snapshots only] Indicates whether to exclude volumes that are attached to instances as the boot volume. If you exclude boot volumes, only volumes attached as data (non-boot) volumes will be backed up by the policy. To exclude boot volumes, specify true.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

ExcludeTags

[Default policies for EBS-backed AMIs only] Specifies whether to exclude volumes that have specific tags.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 50 items.

Required: No

ExcludeVolumeTypes

[Default policies for EBS snapshots only] Specifies the volume types to exclude. Volumes of the specified types will not be targeted by the policy.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 6 items.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: