Basic Usage and Encryption Demo
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 3 minutes and 19 seconds
Students: 103
Rating: 5/5
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.
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