Tag: AWS Backup

UPDATE (2/3/2025): In the time since this blog was published, AWS Backup announced restore testing, a new capability that allows you to automate the entire restore testing process of your AWS resources across storage, compute, and database. To learn more about how to implement restore testing, go to the restore testing developer guide. Your data […]

Your data and applications are some of the most valuable assets in your company. The ability to protect your data and IT infrastructure against cyber-attacks, accidental deletion, natural disasters, and several other threats is essential to secure your business. An important aspect to protecting your assets is the ability to monitor backup, restore, and copy […]

Backing up data is an essential part of enterprise data protection strategy, whether organizations need to comply with regulations or protect against ransomware attacks. Managing your data backups is equally as important as taking backups of your data. Part of data backup management is preventing stale “backups” (also knows as “recovery points”). Stale backups can […]

Today, AWS Backup is announcing cross-Region and cross-account backup (CRAB) support for HAQM FSx. AWS Backup offers a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that further simplifies data protection at scale. AWS Backup also helps you support your regulatory compliance obligations and meets your business continuity goals. HAQM FSx makes it easy and cost-effective to run […]

Customers who use AWS Backup frequently ask, “How do I know if my backup job has failed?” or “How can I be proactively notified of a change to my backup vault settings?” With the recent integration of CloudWatch Events for AWS Backup, we can now deliver a real-time stream of events that describe changes to […]

Today, AWS Backup is announcing support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery (PITR) of HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS). This feature enables customers to recover HAQM RDS backup data from a specified time within their retention period. With this feature, database and backup administrators are able to reduce their recovery point objective (RPO) to […]

UPDATE: On April 12, 2021, AWS announced support for copying HAQM FSx file system backups across AWS Regions and AWS accounts. For more information, read this blog post on cross-Region and cross-account backups for HAQM FSx using AWS Backup. There are many benefits to using more than one AWS account, including resource and operational isolation, disaster […]

At my session at AWS re:Invent 2020-2021, now available on-demand, I had the pleasure of exploring data protection and compliance for cloud workloads with AWS Backup. We were fortunate to have Paul O’Flynn, Principal DevOps Engineer at Workday, join us to elaborate on real-word AWS Backup use cases. In this blog post, I cover some […]

Today, on AWS Storage Day 2020, we are excited to announce AWS Backup supports backups of HAQM FSx file systems and Windows workloads running on EC2, adding to the growing list of features to enhance your data protection. HAQM FSx customers may now enjoy the automation, ease-of-use, and managed compliance protection service that AWS Backup […]

UPDATE: This virtual workshop series was completed on October 15th, 2020. To view it on demand, visit the AWS Storage Virtual Workshop Learning Path for this series. On-premises storage can be costly and complex, with expensive hardware refresh cycles and data migrations due to system upgrades. It is also difficult to gain insights because your […]