AWS Backup supports new options for customizing backup selections

Posted on: May 20, 2020

AWS Backup now supports service opt-in, enabling AWS customers to opt into (or out of) AWS Backup support for supported AWS services at the account level. Service opt-in provides an easy-to-configure solution to ensure that AWS Backup service coverage reflects exactly what you need. It will also make it easy for customers to opt-in when AWS Backup introduces support for a new service, without having to change tagging strategies. Service opt-in is available in all regions where AWS Backup is available except Beijing and Ningxia.

AWS Backup is a fully managed service for centralizing policy-based backup and restore capabilities for AWS resources, both in cloud and on-premises. AWS Backup supports Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Storage Gateway volumes. For more information on all the regions where AWS Backup is available, see the AWS region table. To learn more about AWS Backup, please see our product page and documentation.