AWS Backup is now available for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in 4 additional regions

Posted on: Jan 31, 2020

AWS Backup is now available to protect Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) workloads in four more regions across Asia Pacific, Europe / Middle East / Africa (EMEA), and the Americas. These regions include: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong),EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).

AWS Backup offers a centralized, managed service to back up data across AWS services in the cloud and on premises using Storage Gateway. AWS Backup serves as a single dashboard for backup, restore, and policy-based retention of different AWS resources, including Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.  

For more information on where AWS Backup is available, see the AWS region table. To learn more about AWS Backup, please see our product page and documentation.