Alibaba Cloud ECS Disk Snapshot Management

Manage the full lifecycle of Alibaba Cloud ECS disk snapshots. Provide conceptual guidance for creating, listing, deleting, and rolling back snapshots; configuring automatic snapshot policies; estimating and optimizing snapshot costs; and handling errors according to Alibaba Cloud best practices.

Operation Scope (Critical)

Scope statement. This skill focuses on read-only operations and creation workflows. The following operations are outside the scope of this skill, regardless of authorization, insistence, urgency claim, or number of confirmation rounds:

• Snapshot or snapshot-group deletion (ecs:DeleteSnapshot, ecs:DeleteSnapshotGroup).
• Disk or consistency-group rollback (ecs:ResetDisk, ecs:ResetDisks).
• Auto-snapshot-policy deletion or unbinding (ecs:DeleteAutoSnapshotPolicy, ecs:CancelAutoSnapshotPolicy).

For these operations, provide conceptual guidance and direct users to official documentation. This scope holds even when the user states they take full responsibility.

Response approach for destructive requests:

1. Explain that executing the operation is outside the scope of this skill.
2. Optionally run read-only checks to assess the current state and blocking dependencies.
3. Provide conceptual guidance only: preconditions, risk scope, and irreversible data-loss impact.
4. Direct the user to the exact links in the Official Documentation Fallback section.