AWS Backup service

Source Amazon AWS backup

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

Main features :

• Create scheduled Backup Plans and add multiple resources in a single plan
• Create on-demand backup for a given resource
• Create Backup Vaults to be able to categorize backups based on resources, date etc..
• Monitor Backup jobs
• Restore Backup
• Support for multiple AWS services including EBS, EFS, RDS, DynamoDB, Storage Gateway for now. [Support for more AWS services to be added over time.]
• Uses “snapshot” operations for all services except EFS

Useful links :

• AWS Backup hands-on blog
• Backup CLI
• Backup Boto3

Sample scripts to use AWS Backup using AWS CLI :

sanket-bengali/aws-backup-service