AWS Backup
- What it is
- Centralized, policy-driven backup across AWS services from one console.
- Covers EBS, EC2, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EFS, FSx, AWS Storage Gateway, S3, and on-premises resources via Storage Gateway.
- What it gives you
- Backup plans: schedule, retention, and lifecycle-to-cold-storage rules in one place.
- Cross-Region and cross-account copies for disaster recovery.
- Backup Vault Lock — WORM protection so backups cannot be deleted early, even by an administrator.
- Compliance reporting and audit trails for auditors.
- Not to be confused with
- Per-service snapshots (EBS snapshots, RDS automated backups) — those work, but you manage each separately with no central policy.
- AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery — continuous replication for fast failover; AWS Backup is point-in-time restore.