Posted On: Aug 9, 2023
Today, AWS Backup announces the preview of logically air-gapped vault, a new type of AWS Backup Vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to help reduce recovery time from a data loss event. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys.
Get started with logically air-gapped vault using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. Target backups to a logically air-gapped vault by specifying it as a copy destination in your backup plan. The vault can be shared for recovery with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Once you share the vault with a recovery or test account, you can initiate direct restore jobs from that account, eliminating the overhead of copying backups first.
AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault (Preview) is available in US East (Virginia) Region. It currently supports backup and restore of HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2), HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS), HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS), HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3), and HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS). For more information on this preview, visit the AWS Backup product page, documentation, and the launch blog. To enroll in this preview, send a request via email to aws-backup-vault-preview@haqm.com.