Patent 11237912 was granted and assigned to Amazon on February, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A technology is described for managing storage snapshots of storage volumes. In one example of the technology, a request may be received to create a storage snapshot of a storage volume associated with a tag. The tag may be assigned to a computing instance hosted in a service provider environment, and the storage volume may be assigned for use by the computing instance. In response to the request to create the storage snapshot, the storage volume associated with the tag may be identified, and the storage snapshot of the storage volume associated with the tag may be created.