AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service provided by Amazon Web Services that enables you to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services and on-premises environments. It helps organizations protect their data, comply with regulatory requirements, and ensure business continuity by automating backup processes and providing centralized management.
Centralized Backup Management
AWS Backup provides a centralized dashboard to manage backups across various AWS resources and on-premises systems.
It allows you to configure backup policies, monitor backup operations, and perform restores from a single console.
Automated Backup Policies
You can create backup plans with configurable policies to automatically schedule backups, manage retention, and define the frequency of backups.
Backup schedules can be set to daily, weekly, or on custom timeframes depending on your data protection needs.
Backup vaults provide secure storage for backup data and allow you to organize and control backup access.
Secure and Encrypted Backups
AWS Backup automatically encrypts your backups using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to ensure data security.
Backup data is stored in Backup Vaults, which can be configured with access control and permissions to ensure that only authorized users or roles can access or restore the backups.
Backup Vault Lock
AWS Backup Vault Lock is a feature that helps protect backup data from accidental or malicious deletion by implementing a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) retention model, providing immutable backup storage for regulatory and compliance needs.
Cross-region backup allows you to back up your data to multiple AWS regions for disaster recovery, redundancy, and compliance with data residency requirements.
Cross-account backup allows you to copy backup data between AWS accounts for data replication, disaster recovery, or migration.
Supported AWS Services in AWS Backup
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS): Create backups of Amazon EBS volumes, including EC2 instance storage.
Amazon RDS: Backup relational database instances (including Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Oracle).
Amazon DynamoDB: Back up NoSQL databases on DynamoDB, including automatic backups and point-in-time recovery (PITR).
Amazon EFS: Create backups of file systems stored in Amazon EFS.
Amazon FSx: Back up file systems in Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre.
Amazon S3: Backup objects stored in S3 buckets, including versioned and non-versioned objects.
Amazon Aurora: Backup Amazon Aurora databases.
On-premises systems: Integrate on-premises backups using AWS Storage Gateway, enabling hybrid backup strategies.