2 years ago

Category: Business, Data, automation

Today, I’m happy to announce the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager, a new feature of AWS Backup that helps you monitor and evaluate the compliance status of your backups to meet business and regulatory requirements, and enables you to generate reports that help demonstrate compliance to auditors and regulators.

However, customers still needed to use their own tooling for verifying that backup policies were being enforced and, as part of proving adherence to auditors, parsing backup transcripts to convert them into auditable reports.

Audit Manager requires you to enable monitoring through AWS Config for your backup plans (AWS::Backup::BackupPlan resource type), backup selection (AWS::Backup::BackupSelection), vaults (AWS::Backup::BackupVault), recovery points (AWS::Backup::RecoveryPoint), and AWS Config resource compliance (AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance).

When creating a framework, you provide a name, an optional description, and you select whether to use the provided AWS Backup framework type, which includes five pre-defined controls, or you can opt to customize your framework.