Backup Apache log files using logrotate

/etc/logrotate.d/httpd

If you want to backup apache logs for all instances (you can copy this logrotate script/snippet in /etc/logrotate.d/httpd)

Prerequisite: setup s3cmd

/var/log/httpd/*log {
    daily
    dateext
    #dateext dateformat -%Y-%m-%d-%s
    missingok
    notifempty
    #size 3M
    sharedscripts
    delaycompress
    rotate 4
    create
    postrotate
        /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true

        BUCKET=logs-backup
        INSTANCE_ID=`curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id`
        /usr/local/bin/s3cmd -c /root/.s3cfg -m text/plain sync /var/log/httpd/access_log* s3://${BUCKET}/system_logs/httpd/${INSTANCE_ID}/
        /usr/local/bin/s3cmd -c /root/.s3cfg -m text/plain sync /var/log/httpd/error_log* s3://${BUCKET}/system_logs/httpd/${INSTANCE_ID}/

    endscript
}