Backup

fully managed backup service

Overview

• Fully managed backup service

• centralize and automate the backup of data accross AWS services.

Features

Backup schedule

• a policy that defines (when & how) you want to back up your resources.

• lifecycle: defines when a backup is transitioned to cold storage, and when it expires.

Integration

• storage: RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, Storage Gateway, FSx

• Compute: EC2, EBS

Best practices

• Set lifecycle setting to note move backup to cold storage until at least 8 days.

• Intention setting: in cold storage, must be stored at least 90 days.