AWS Backup
fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate backup of data across services, and on-prem
Overview
Fully managed service
Centralize and automate backup across services.
Supported services
EC2/EBS
S3
RDS / Aurora / DynamoDB
DocumentDB / Neptune
EFS / FSx (Lustre & Windows File Server)
AWS Storage Gateway (Volume Gateway)
Benefits
Supports cross-region backups (can backup EC2 & Aurora instances in Tokyo region to Osaka region)
Support cross-account backups
Support PITR for supported services
On-demand and Scheduled backups
Tag-based backup policies.
Features
Backup Plan
A backup policy
build a new plan
start from template provided by AWS
using JSON expression of an existing backup plan
Backup frequency every 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly, cron expression
Transition to Cold Storage
Retention Period
Backup Vault
contains and organizes the actual backup copies and associated metadata.
Backup Vault Lock
CAN NOT be deleted backups.
Even the
rootuser cannot delete backups when this feature enabled.
Workflow
Create a Backup Plan
Assign resources (services) that you want to backup.
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