diff --git a/ec2-automate-backup/README.md b/ec2-automate-backup/README.md
index b09556b..05786c4 100644
--- a/ec2-automate-backup/README.md
+++ b/ec2-automate-backup/README.md
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ ec2-automate-backup requires one of the following two parameters be provided:
 
 `-n` - tag snapshots "Name" tag as well as description
 
+`-h` - tag snapshots "InitiatingHost" tag to specify which host ran the script
+
 `-k <purge_after_days>` - the period after which a snapshot can be purged. For example, running "ec2-automate-backup.sh -v "vol-6d6a0527 vol-636a0112" -k 31" would allow snapshots to be removed after 31 days. purge_after_days creates two tags for each volume that was backed up - a PurgeAllow tag which is set to PurgeAllow=true and a PurgeAfter tag which is set to the present day (in UTC) + the value provided by -k.
 
 `-p` - the -p flag will purge (meaning delete) all snapshots that were created more than "purge after days" ago. ec2-automate-backup looks at two tags to determine which snapshots should be deleted - the PurgeAllow and PurgeAfter tags. The tags must be set as follows: PurgeAllow=true and PurgeAfter=YYYY-MM-DD where YYYY-MM-DD must be before the present date.
diff --git a/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh b/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
index 6c61276..4c67bab 100755
--- a/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
+++ b/ec2-automate-backup/ec2-automate-backup.sh
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ create_EBS_Snapshot_Tags()
 		ec2_snapshot_resource_id=`echo "$ec2_create_snapshot_result" | cut -f 2`
 		snapshot_tags="$snapshot_tags --tag Name=ec2ab_${ebs_selected}_$date_current"
 	fi
+	#if $hostname_tag_create is true then append --tag InitiatingHost=`hostname -f` to the variable $snapshot_tags
+	if $hostname_tag_create
+		then
+		snapshot_tags="$snapshot_tags --tag InitiatingHost='`hostname -f`'"
+	fi
 	#if $purge_after_days is true, then append $purge_after_date to the variable $snapshot_tags
 	if [[ -n $purge_after_days ]]
 		then
@@ -156,12 +161,14 @@ date_binary=""
 
 #sets the "Name" tag set for a snapshot to false - using "Name" requires that ec2-create-tags be called in addition to ec2-create-snapshot
 name_tag_create=false
+#sets the "InitiatingHost" tag set for a snapshot to false
+hostname_tag_create=false
 #sets the user_tags feature to false - user_tag creates tags on snapshots - by default each snapshot is tagged with volume_id and current_data timestamp
 user_tags=false
 #sets the Purge Snapshot feature to false - this feature will eventually allow the removal of snapshots that have a "PurgeAfter" tag that is earlier than current date
 purge_snapshots=false
 #handles options processing
-while getopts :s:c:r:v:t:k:pnu opt
+while getopts :s:c:r:v:t:k:pnhu opt
 	do
 		case $opt in
 			s) selection_method="$OPTARG";;
@@ -171,6 +178,7 @@ while getopts :s:c:r:v:t:k:pnu opt
 			t) tag="$OPTARG";;
 			k) purge_after_days="$OPTARG";;
 			n) name_tag_create=true;;
+			h) hostname_tag_create=true;;
 			p) purge_snapshots=true;;
 			u) user_tags=true;;
 			*) echo "Error with Options Input. Cause of failure is most likely that an unsupported parameter was passed or a parameter was passed without a corresponding option." 1>&2 ; exit 64;;