Sorry about that, I did actually miss this one. My thought in separating out the description and name was based on Amazon resource tagging. If you look at other resources within the driver, we call ex_create_tags() if the name is set. I just thought it would be advantageous to allow for a shortened snapshot name (eg: DB Backup #1) with a more descriptive string for the snapshot description (eg: Database backup prior to upgrading to MySQL 5.6.12 on Dec. 29th.).