AWS Backup: A Cost-Effective Way to Protect Data at Scale

What is AWS Backup and why using it?

AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate data backup across multiple AWS services in the cloud and on-premises.

With AWS Backup, you can configure backup policies and monitor the backup activities of your AWS resources in one place. AWS Backup automates and consolidates backup jobs that were previously performed service by service and removes the need to create custom scripts and manual processes.

Furthermore, with AWS Backup you can build a foundation for disaster recovery. You can backup your data across different regions and accounts and also perform automatic restore testing.

With just a few clicks in the AWS Backup console, you can create backup policies that automate the management of scheduling and retention of backups.

Simplify Your Backup Process

You can setup different backup schedules based on your needs.

Imagine you need to take daily backups. You can create a plan that runs every day at 5:00 UTC and keeps those backups for 35 days. To make things easier, you can tag your resources with “backup=daily” so they’re automatically included in this plan.