AWS Backup service is designed to centralize and automate the backing up of data across AWS services in the AWS cloud as well as on-premises using the AWS Storage Gateway. This is Amazon’s first attempt to create a single solution that orchestrates and manages the life cycle of backups across their services.
For EBS backup, we already have a solution “Life Cycle Manager” in EC2, but AWS Backup provides a single resource for all types of backups in the cloud. A solution for centralizing backups across AWS has been in high demand, and Amazon delivered with AWS Backup.
Enterprises have been asking for a way to automate their backups. What enterprises do NOT want is to have to manually manage their own backups, create their own tools via scripts or AWS Lambda functions, or use a point solution for each application they have to protect. AWS Backup aims to be that single point of management and source of truth that customers can rely on.
AWS BACKUP SUPPORT AWS SERVICES
Architecture:
Cloud-native backup
AWS Backup provides a centralized console to automate and manage backups across AWS services. AWS Backup supports Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx, Amazon EC2, and AWS Storage Gateway, to enable you to backup key data stores, such as your storage volumes, databases, and file systems.
Hybrid backup
AWS Backup integrates with AWS Storage Gateway, a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage. You can use AWS Backup to back up your application data stored in AWS Storage Gateway volumes. Backups of AWS Storage Gateway volumes are securely stored in the AWS Cloud and are compatible with Amazon EBS, allowing you to restore your volumes to the AWS Cloud or to your on-premises environment. This integration also allows you to apply the same backup policies to both your AWS Cloud resources and your on-premises data stored on AWS Storage Gateway volumes.
- AWS Backup is a fully managed service for backup and restore. This allows us to set up backup policies for Amazon EBS volumes, RDS databases, DynamoDB tables, EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.
- It centralizes and automates the backup of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on-premises using the AWS Storage Gateway.
Advantages of AWS Backup :
- Ease of handling backups; mainly because it’s automated with minimal manual intervention required.
- Daily, weekly and even monthly backups can be set up.
- The pricing model is the same as that of snapshots.
- App data in cloud and on-premises can be backed up in a common way (i.e., same backup policy for cloud data and Storage Gateway volumes).
AWS Backup Steps UI:
AWS Backup Console
We have 3 types of backup plans:
Types of Backup Plan
We have different types of plans if we choose the option Start from an existing plan.
Types of plan
We have daily and monthly backups if we choose Daily-Monthly-1yr-Retention.
selected daily backups and clicked on create a plan.
Now, you can assign resources with your plan, so click on “Assign resources”. I selected EBS as the resource.
Once we select EBS, all volume IDs in your region will be selected, but you can choose which ones to include.
Assign Resources
Now AWS Backup will backup according to your assigned plan.
If you want to learn more about AWS Backup, take a look at the Article below.
eBook: Backup with AWS »
Infographic: Modernize Backup and Restore with AWS »
AWS Backup resources
