AWS Backup

fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate backup of data across services, and on-prem

AWS Backup document |

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 root user cannot delete backups when this feature enabled.

Workflow

workflow to create backup

1. Create a Backup Plan

2. Assign resources (services) that you want to backup.