createLifecyclePolicy

Creates an Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager lifecycle policy. Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager supports the following policy types:

  • Custom EBS snapshot policy

  • Custom EBS-backed AMI policy

  • Cross-account copy event policy

  • Default policy for EBS snapshots

  • Default policy for EBS-backed AMIs

For more information, see Default policies vs custom policies.

If you create a default policy, you can specify the request parameters either in the request body, or in the PolicyDetails request structure, but not both.