AWS Backup blogs, videos, tutorials, and other resources

Streamline search and item level recovery with AWS Backup. With Bisman Sethi (December 2024).

Building cyber resiliency with AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault. With Sushmitha Srinivasa Murthy and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (August 2024).

Attach an Amazon EC2 key pair to an AWS Backup restore of a VMware virtual machine. With Olumuyiwa Koya and Kenie Ogunsemowo (August 2024).

Streamline and automate compliance monitoring and reporting with AWS Backup Audit Manager. With Sabith Venkitachalapathy, Glenn Chia, and Mark Rowland (June 2024).

Application-consistent backup for Windows application on Amazon EC2 with AWS Backup. With Bhaskar Mazumdar and Karthikeyan KM (May 2024).

Optimizing AWS Backup costs. With Kenneth Hui (April 2024).

Designing a resilient and cost-effective backup strategy for Amazon S3. With Mojgan Toth and Harish Mandhadi (March 2024).

Automate the delivery of AWS Backup Audit Manager reports via email. With Ezekiel Oyerinde, Charles Meruwoma, and Sri Gudavalli.(January 2024)

Streamlining Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) for Aurora with AWS Backup. With Enrique Ramirez (January 2024)

Backup and restore on-premises VMware virtual machines using AWS Backup. With Olumuyiwa Koya and Ezekiel Oyerinde (June 2022).

Using AWS Backup to protect Amazon Aurora databases. With Chris Hendon, Brandon Rubadou, and Thomas Liddle (May 2022).

Protecting encrypted Amazon RDS instances with cross-account and cross-Region backups. With Evan Peck and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (May 2022).

Automate and improve your security posture using AWS Backup and AWS PrivateLink. With Bilal Alam (Apr. 2022).

Obtain aggregated daily cross-account multi-Region AWS Backup reporting. With Wali Akbari and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (Feb. 2022).

Automate visibility of backup findings using AWS Backup and AWS Security Hub. With Kanishk Mahajan (Jan. 2022).

Top 10 security best practices for securing backups in AWS. With Ibukun Oyewumi (Jan. 2022).

Optimizing SAS Grid on AWS with FSx for Lustre (and optimizing disaster recovery using AWS Backup). With Matt Saeger and Shea Lutton (Jan. 2022).

Centralizing data protection and compliance in Amazon Neptune with AWS Backup. With Brian O'Keefe (Nov. 2021).

Manage backup and restore of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with AWS Backup. With Karthik Vijayraghavan (Nov. 2021).

Simplify auditing your data protection policies with AWS Backup Audit Manager. With Jordan Bjorkman and Harshitha Putta (Nov. 2021).

Enhance the security posture of your backups with AWS Backup Vault Lock. With Rolland Miller (Oct. 2021).

How to retain resource tags in AWS Backup restore jobs. With Ibukun Oyewumi, Amee Shah, and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (Sep. 2021).

Managing access to backups using service control policies with AWS Backup. With Sabith Venkitachalapathy and Ibukun Oyewumi (Aug. 2021).

Automate centralized backup at scale across AWS services using AWS Backup. With Ibukun Oyewumi and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (Jul. 2021).

Blog: How to simplify Microsoft SQL Server backup using AWS Backup and VSS. With Siavash Irani and Sepehr Samiei (Jul. 2021).

Automate data recovery validation with AWS Backup. With Mahanth Jayadeva (Jun. 2021).

Configuring notifications to monitor AWS Backup jobs. With Virgil Ennes (Jun. 2021).

Automating backups and optimizing backup costs for Amazon EFS using AWS Backup. With Prachi Gupta and Rohit Verma (Jun. 2021).

Manage Amazon EFS backup costs: AWS Backup support for cost allocation tags. With Aditya Maruvada (May 2021).

Create and share encrypted backups across accounts and Regions using AWS Backup. With Prachi Gupta (May 2021).

AWS Backup is now FedRAMP High approved for your compliance and data protection needs. With Andy Grimes (May 2021).

ZS Associates enhances backup efficiency with AWS Backup. With Mitesh Naik, Hiranand Mulchandani, and Sushant Jadhav (May 2021).

Tutorial: Amazon EBS Backup and Restore using AWS Backup. With Fathima Kamal (Apr. 2021).

Video Tutorial: Managing Cross-Region Copies of Backups. With David DeLuca (Apr. 2021).

Delete multiple AWS Backup recovery points using AWS Tools for PowerShell. With Sherif Talaat (Apr. 2021).

Cross-region and cross-account backups for Amazon FSx using AWS Backup. With Adam Hunter and Fathima Kamal (Apr. 2021).

Amazon CloudWatch Events and Metrics for AWS Backup. With Rolland Miller (Mar. 2021).

Tutorial: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Backup and Restore using AWS Backup. With Fathima Kamal (Mar. 2021).

Point-in-time recovery and continuous backup for Amazon RDS with AWS Backup. With Kelly Griffin (Mar. 2021).

Automate AWS Backup with AWS Service Catalog. with John Husemoller (Jan. 2021).

Secure data recovery with cross-account backup and Cross-Region copy using AWS Backup. With Cher Simon (Jan. 2021).

AWS re:Invent recap: Data protection and compliance with AWS Backup. With Nancy Wang (Dec. 2020).

AWS Backup provides centralized data protection across your AWS resources. With Nancy Wang (Nov. 2020).

Tech Talk: Data protection at scale with AWS Backup. With Kareem Behairy (Sep. 2020).

Centralized cross-account management with cross-Region copy using AWS Backup. With Cher Simon (Sep. 2020).

Video Tutorial: Managing backups at scale in your AWS Organizations using AWS Backup. With Ildar Sharafeev (Jul. 2020).

Managing backups at scale in your AWS Organizations using AWS Backup. With Nancy Wang, Avi Drabkin, Ganesh Sundaresan, and Vikas Shah (Jun. 2020).

Recover Amazon EFS files and folders with AWS Backup. With Abrar Hussain and Gurudath Pai (May 2020).

Scheduling automated backups using Amazon EFS and AWS Backup. With Rob Barnes (Dec. 2019).

re:Invent Recording: AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on AWS Backup ft. Rackspace. With Nancy Wang and Jason Pavao (Dec. 2019).

Protecting your data with AWS Backup. With Anthony Fiore (Jul. 2019).

Marketing Video: Introducing AWS Backup. Jan. 2019.

Video: Introduction to AWS Backup. With AWS Training and Certification.