Amazon Backup

Amazon Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across Amazon Web Services services. Using Amazon Backup, you can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for Amazon Web Services resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon Aurora snapshots, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, Amazon FSx file systems, and Amazon Storage Gateway volumes. Amazon Backup automates and consolidates backup tasks previously performed service-by-service, removing the need to create custom scripts and manual processes. With just a few clicks in the Amazon Backup console, you can create backup policies that automate backup schedules and retention management. Amazon Backup provides a fully managed, policy-based backup solution, simplifying your backup management, enabling you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.

Benefits

Centrally manage backups

Configure backup policies from a central backup console, simplifying backup management and making it easy to ensure that your application data across Amazon Web Services services is backed up and protected. Use Amazon Backup’s central console, APIs, or command line interface to backup, restore, and set backup retention policies across Amazon Web Services services in the cloud and on premises using the Amazon Storage Gateway.

Automate backup processes

Save time and money with Amazon Backup’s fully managed, policy-based solution. Amazon Backup provides automated backup schedules, retention management, and lifecycle management, removing the need for custom scripts and manual processes. With Amazon Backup, you can apply backup policies to your Amazon Web Services resources by simply tagging them, making it easy to implement your backup strategy across all your Amazon Web Services resources and ensuring that all your application data is appropriately backed up.

Improve backup compliance

Enforce your backup policies, encrypt your backups, protect your backups from manual deletion and prevent changes to your backup lifecycle settings, and audit backup activity from a centralized console to help meet your backup compliance requirements. Backup policies make it simple to align your backup strategy with your internal or regulatory requirements. Amazon Backup secures your backups by encrypting your data in transit and at rest. Consolidated backup activity logs across Amazon Web Services services makes it easier to perform compliance audits.

Use cases

Cloud-native backup

Amazon Backup provides a centralized console to automate and manage backups across Amazon Web Services services. Amazon Backup integrates with Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx, Amazon EC2 and Amazon Storage Gateway, to enable you to backup key data stores, such as your storage volumes, databases, and filesystems.

Hybrid backup

Amazon Backup provides a common way to back up your application data both in the cloud and on premises. Amazon Backup integrates with Amazon Storage Gateway, a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use Amazon Web Services cloud storage. This integration allows you to apply the same backup policies to both your Amazon Web Services Cloud resources and your on-premises data stored on Amazon Web Services Storage Gateway volumes.

On-premises backup

Amazon Backup provides a common way to back up your application data both in the cloud and on premises. Amazon Backup integrates with Amazon Storage Gateway, a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use Amazon Web Services cloud storage. You can use Amazon Backup to back up your application data stored in Amazon Storage Gateway volumes. Backups of Amazon Storage Gateway volumes are securely stored in the Amazon Web Services Cloud and are compatible with Amazon EBS, allowing you to restore your volumes to the Amazon Web Services Cloud or to your on-premises environment.