Enhanced Snapshots, from Sungard Availability Services | Labs, manages EBS snapshots and performs data deduplication to S3 for greater cost savings. The product will be useful for AWS users who want to: reduce the cost of storing snapshots, reduce the time IT engineers spend on routine snapshot management tasks, and schedule recurring snapshots. Deduplication is run across all enabled snapshots in a region, which decreases the amount of total data stored. Furthermore, deduplicated blocks are stored in S3 at a much lower cost than AWS' standard EBS snapshots. This tool provides users with a great way to pay less for long-term retention of snapshot based data in AWS. Using an intuitive interface, users can easily automate routine tasks like the creation of snapshots and the deletion of old backups. Since these tasks are automated, risks associated with human error are minimized. Enhanced Snapshots is open sourced and licensed under Apache v 2.0. Use of Enhanced Snapshots software is free and you only pay for the underlying infrastructure required to support it.