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Utilizing AWS Backup To Improve Your Recovery Time

Regardless of the size of your company, data backups and system recovery need to be a critical part of your IT operations and planning.

Today, many technologies encompass the backup realm, and AWS has its own in-house feature to help you automatically back up and recover multiple other services too; AWS Backup.

Meanwhile, AWS Back up provides the following features and capabilities: The advantages of utilizing AWS Backup as your recovery service include: In AWS Backup, a backup vault is a container that you organize your backups in (all backups are stored here).

In AWS Backup, a backup plan is a policy expression that outlines when and how you want to configure the back up of your AWS resources, such as for Amazon DynamoDB tables or Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems. You can assign resources to backup plans, and AWS Backup will automatically backup and retain the backups for those resources according to the configured plan.