# Tutorial: Schedule automated Amazon EBS snapshots
Schedule automated Amazon EBS snapshots

**Note**  
Scheduled rules are a legacy feature of EventBridge.  
EventBridge offers a more flexible and powerful way to create, run, and manage scheduled tasks centrally, at scale: EventBridge Scheduler. With EventBridge Scheduler, you can create schedules using cron and rate expressions for recurring patterns, or configure one-time invocations. You can set up flexible time windows for delivery, define retry limits, and set the maximum retention time for failed API invocations.   
Scheduler is highly customizable, and offers improved scalability over scheduled rules, with a wider set of target API operations and AWS services. We recommend that you use Scheduler to invoke targets on a schedule.  
For more information, see [Create a schedule](using-eventbridge-scheduler.md#using-eventbridge-scheduler-create) or the *[EventBridge Scheduler User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/scheduler/latest/UserGuide/what-is-scheduler.html)*.

This tutorial previously demonstrated how to create automated Amazon EBS snapshots using EventBridge scheduled rules. We now recommend using one of the following alternatives, depending on your use case.

## Recommended: Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager


For automated Amazon EBS snapshot lifecycle management, including creation, retention, and deletion on a schedule, we recommend [Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/snapshot-lifecycle.html) (Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager). Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is purpose-built for Amazon EBS snapshot automation and provides policy-based lifecycle management without requiring you to build and maintain scheduling infrastructure.

## Alternative: Amazon EventBridge Scheduler


If you need more flexible scheduling options or want to combine snapshot creation with other AWS API actions, you can use Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. EventBridge Scheduler offers improved scalability over EventBridge scheduled rules, with a wider set of target API operations, flexible time windows, and built-in retry support.

To get started with EventBridge Scheduler, see [Getting started with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/scheduler/latest/UserGuide/getting-started.html) in the *Amazon EventBridge Scheduler User Guide*.

## Legacy: EventBridge scheduled rules


If you still need to use EventBridge scheduled rules, see [Creating a scheduled rule (legacy) in Amazon EventBridge](eb-create-rule-schedule.md).