Related: S3, EBS, EFS, RDS, Amazon Aurora, EC2
Multi-account, multi-region backup service.
Consolidates management of backups in one place.
Consists of:
- Backup plans - frequency, windows, cycles, vault, region to region copy, cron..
- Resources - ditto that are backed up
- Vaults - destination container for backups (assign KMS key for encryption)
- Vault Lock - Write once read many - Wikipedia for compliance, 72 hours cool off before enable, then even AWS can’t delete
- On-demand backups
- PITR - Point in time recovery