AWS Backup: A perfect Backup Service

Introduction

In January 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new AWS backup service designed to “centralize and automate data backups across AWS services, in the cloud and on-premises using the AWS Storage Gateway.” This is Amazon’s first attempt at an integrated solution that orchestrates and manages the backup lifecycle across its broad portfolio of services. In this release, AWS Backup supports backups to Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Amazon Relation Database Service (RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), and AWS Storage Gateway.

Figure 1: Introduction to AWS Backup

AWS Backup

AWS backup centralization solutions are in high demand among large enterprise customers who are used to deploying traditional backup solutions in their data centers and who use “jobs” to schedule backups and handle tasks like expiring/deleting outdated backups. What businesses don’t want is to manually manage their own backups, create custom tools using AWS Lambda scripts or functions, or use a point solution for any application that needs to be protected. AWS Backup strives to be a single point of management and information source that customers can trust.

Advantages of AWS Backup

· Ease of backup operations; This is mainly because it is automated with minimal manual intervention.

· You can set up daily, weekly and monthly backups.

· The pricing model is the same as the snapshot.

· Application data for cloud and on-premises storage can be backed up in the usual way (i.e. using the same backup policy for cloud data and Storage Gateway volumes).

· Convenient console.

Alternate option for backup on AWS

· For AMI EC2, there is a “Create Image” option that saves the configured machine as a reusable AMI installation.

· For RDS, there was a backup option to set the retention date to 35 days with backups.

· For EBS volume backups, create a volume snapshot. For EBS volumes, you can also set up automatic snapshot backups using the Data Lifecycle Manager service. T

· here is also the ability to automate EC2 backups using the lambda function, but this is inconvenient as it requires making sure that the snapshot of the root volume is in the shutdown state.

Pricing

The latest supported EFS backups are billed per GB, but AWS Backup’s pricing model is the same as that of snapshots. More information on the backup pricing structure can be found here. Recovering data from EFS and DynamoDB file systems is also charged per GB.

You can now back up application data from cloud and on-premises storage in the usual way. This means you can apply the same backup policy to both your AWS cloud resources and your on-premises data stored in Storage Gateway volumes. AWS Storage Gateway volume backups are stored securely in the AWS Cloud and are compatible with Amazon EBS, so you can restore volumes to the AWS Cloud or on-premises.

Conclusion

AWS Backup ambitions to resolve large trouble for establishments that want a less complicated technique to handling statistics safety throughout their AWS estate. I am searching ahead to see what destiny upgrades Amazon may be including to the provider and the way third-celebration companies will respond. I bear in mind AWS Backup to be a stable v1 launch that Amazon can construct over overtime. It can already declare an area because the backup product with the broadest integration