AWS BACKUPS

S3

Amazon S3 is natively integrated with AWS Backup:

• Continuous backups (PITR)
• Periodic backups.

EBS

• Snapshot are incremental volume copied to S3.

• The snapshot deletion process is designed so that you need to retain only the most recent snapshot in order to create volumes.

• Manually Snapshots:

• Automatic snapshot creation (NOT NATIVE):

  • Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
  • AWS Backup.

RDS

• Manually Snapshots
• Automated Backups:
  • 0 to 35 days retention.
  • RDS also use S3 to store transaction logs every 5 minutes.

DynamoDB

• On-Demand Backup
• PITR:
  • 35 day recovery window
  • 1s Granularity

Redshift

• Manually Snapshots
• Automatically increment backup:
  • Every 8 hours or 5 GB of data
  • 1-day retention (default, configurable up to 35 days)

Backup to S3 bucket, configurable to copy snapshots to another region for DR.