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AWS Backup

  • fully manageddata-protection (backup/restore) service
  • consolidate managementinto one place
  • across accounts and regions
  • supports a wide range of aws products
  • ec2. ebs, efs, rds, ddb, s3 ...etc
  • Backup plans
  • frequency : how often to make snapshots
  • window : time that backups begin and duration
  • lifecycle : transition to cold storage
  • vault
  • region copy : copy backups from one region to another
  • Resources : what resources are backed up
  • Vaults : Backup destination
  • assign kms key for encryption
  • default read and write
  • vault lock : write once, read many, 72 hour cool off, then even aws can't delete it
  • On-Demand : manual backups created as needed
  • Point in time recovery : restore resource to a specific date and time