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Amazon Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive

Posted on: Jun 3, 2024

Today, Amazon Backup announces support for EBS Snapshots Archive, allowing customers to automatically move EBS Snapshots created by Amazon Backup to EBS Snapshots Archive. EBS Snapshots Archive is low-cost, long-term storage tier meant for your rarely-accessed snapshots that do not need frequent or fast retrieval, allowing you to save up to 75% on storage cost. 

You can now use Amazon Backup to transition your EBS Snapshots to EBS Snapshots Archive and manage their lifecycle, alongside Amazon Backup’s other supported resources. EBS Snapshots are incremental, storing only the changes since the last snapshot and making them cost effective for daily and weekly backups that need to be accessed frequently. You may also have EBS snapshots that you only need to access every few months or years, retaining them for long-term regulatory requirements. For these long-term snapshots, you can now transition your EBS snapshots managed by Amazon Backup to EBS Snapshots Archive Tier to store full, point-in-time snapshots at lower storage costs. 

Amazon Backup support for EBS Snapshots Archive is available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can get started by using the Amazon Backup console, API or CLI. For more information on using EBS Snapshots Archive with Amazon Backup, visit the news blog our documentation.