DevOps Articles

Preview – AWS Backup Adds Support for Amazon S3

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ Starting today, you can preview https://aws.amazon.com/backup/ for https://aws.amazon.com/s3/. AWS Backup is a fully managed, policy-based service that lets you to centralize and automate the backup and restore of your applications spanning across 12 AWS services: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ instances, https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ volumes, https://aws.amazon.com/rds/ databases (including https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/ clusters), https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ tables, https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/ databases, https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/ databases, https://aws.amazon.com/efs file systems, https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/lustre/ file systems, https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows/ file systems, https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/ volumes, and now Amazon S3 (in preview).

Second, it lets you easily restore your data: AWS Backup provides a single-click-restore experience for your S3 data.

AWS Backup for S3 (Preview) lets you create continuous point-in-time backups along with periodic backups of S3 buckets, including object data, object tags, access control lists (ACLs), and user-defined metadata.

If there is a data disruption event, then you choose a backup from the backup vault, and restore an S3 bucket (or individual S3 objects) to a new or existing S3 bucket.