Posted On: Aug 5, 2020
Starting today, HAQM Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs for Snapshots are available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Using HAQM EBS direct APIs, customers can create snapshots of their block storage data, regardless of where it resides, including data on-premises. This enables customers to achieve business continuity in AWS at a lower cost and use the existing Fast Snapshot Restore feature to quickly recover this data into HAQM EBS volumes for use cases like disaster recovery.
HAQM EBS direct APIs also provide the ability to directly read snapshots and get differences between two snapshots without needing to create HAQM EBS volumes and HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. This enables backup providers to easily track incremental changes on EBS volumes and provide more granular recovery point objectives (RPOs) to customers at 70% lower costs.
Complete regional availability for the feature can be found here. To learn more about the feature, see the technical documentation and pricing pages on HAQM EBS direct APIs for Snapshots.