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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots are point-in-time copies of your Amazon EBS volumes. They're like making a backup of your hard drive. You create snapshots to protect your data from loss, allowing you to easily restore your data to a previous state if something goes wrong. Snapshots are also used to quickly create new volumes, making them useful for cloning your existing storage or creating copies for development and testing purposes.