title: Amazon EC2: Moving an EBS volume snapshot to s3
body: <p>I am trying to create a backup and restore mechanism for my EBS volumes</p>
  
  <p>I could easily create a mechanism for this by using </p>
  
  <p>to take a snapshot of volume </p>
  
  <pre><code>ec2-create-snapshot -d $description $volume
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and restore </p>
  
  <pre><code>ec2-create-volume --snapshot $snapid -z $zone
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now as per my understanding, these snapshots are still on EBS. So a better way will be to move the snapshots to S3. </p>
  
  <p>So how can I move the snapshots to s3 bucket?</p>