Category: AWS Backup

Amazon DynamoDB offers two types of backups: point-in-time recovery (PITR) and on-demand backups. PITR is used to recover your table to any point in time in a rolling 35 day window, which is used to help customers mitigate accidental deletes or writes to their tables from bad code, malicious access, or user error. On demand […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced new features in AWS Backup for Amazon DynamoDB on-demand backups that can help you meet your compliance, business continuity, and cost-optimization needs. In this post, we describe these features and provide a step-by-step guide for using them to copy DynamoDB backups across AWS Regions and across accounts, configure your […]

Many organizations around the world, such as government agencies, financial institutions, and non-profits, are looking for ways to protect their valuable data from ransomware attacks and natural disasters. In addition, many businesses are required to maintain their data long term to meet regulatory compliance and business policies. In the cloud, a strategy we see customers […]

With customers scaling up their AWS workloads across hundreds, if not thousands of AWS resources, customers have expressed the need to centrally manage and monitor their backups. They want to have a standardized way to manage their backups at scale. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services. AWS Backup […]

You may have stringent regulatory compliance obligations that require an effective multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) plan to mitigate a Region-wide disaster. AWS offers multiple methods to meet these needs, taking into consideration different factors such as recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), and costs. In this post, I focus on how to keep […]