Cross-Region Backups With AWS Backup Service

In this lesson, you will learn how to use AWS Backup to create snapshots and have them available in another region — essentially creating a Disaster Recovery site.

Learning Objectives

• Have a greater understanding of the AWS Backup service and how it interacts with other services such as EC2, EBS, and RDS
• See how we create a cross-region backup
• Terminology of AWS Backup
• Basic usage
• Creating a Backup Plan
• Enabling and verifying cross-region functionality

Intended Audience

• Those who want to understand the basics of the AWS Backup service
• Those ready to tackle the hands-on task of creating EC2 snapshots that could be used to recover from an outage
• Those who manage a fleet of EC2, perhaps along with RDS for their databases 

Prerequisites 

• Have an understanding of the basics of AWS, such as using EC2 for Virtual Machines and RDS for your databases. As long as you understand how those services work at a high level, you should be able to get the most out of this lesson.