AWS Backup blogs, videos, tutorials, and other resources

For more information about AWS Backup, see the following:

• Building cyber resiliency with AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault. With Sushmitha Srinivasa Murthy and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (August 2024).

• Attach an Amazon EC2 key pair to an AWS Backup restore of a VMware virtual machine. With Olumuyiwa Koya and Kenie Ogunsemowo (August 2024).

• Streamline and automate compliance monitoring and reporting with AWS Backup Audit Manager. With Sabith Venkitachalapathy, Glenn Chia, and Mark Rowland (June 2024).

• Application-consistent backup for Windows application on Amazon EC2 with AWS Backup. With Bhaskar Mazumdar and Karthikeyan KM (May 2024).

• Optimizing AWS Backup costs. With Kenneth Hui (April 2024).

• Designing a resilient and cost-effective backup strategy for Amazon S3. With Mojgan Toth and Harish Mandhadi (March 2024).

• Automate the delivery of AWS Backup Audit Manager reports via email. With Ezekiel Oyerinde, Charles Meruwoma, and Sri Gudavalli.(January 2024)

• Streamlining Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) for Aurora with AWS Backup. With Enrique Ramirez (January 2024)

• Backup and restore on-premises VMware virtual machines using AWS Backup. With Olumuyiwa Koya and Ezekiel Oyerinde (June 2022).

• Using AWS Backup to protect Amazon Aurora databases. With Chris Hendon, Brandon Rubadou, and Thomas Liddle (May 2022).

• Protecting encrypted Amazon RDS instances with cross-account and cross-Region backups. With Evan Peck and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (May 2022).

• Automate and improve your security posture using AWS Backup and AWS PrivateLink. With Bilal Alam (Apr. 2022).

• Obtain aggregated daily cross-account multi-Region AWS Backup reporting. With Wali Akbari and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (Feb. 2022).

• Automate visibility of backup findings using AWS Backup and AWS Security Hub. With Kanishk Mahajan (Jan. 2022).

• Top 10 security best practices for securing backups in AWS. With Ibukun Oyewumi (Jan. 2022).

• Optimizing SAS Grid on AWS with FSx for Lustre (and optimizing disaster recovery using AWS Backup). With Matt Saeger and Shea Lutton (Jan. 2022).

• Centralizing data protection and compliance in Amazon Neptune with AWS Backup. With Brian O'Keefe (Nov. 2021).

• Manage backup and restore of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with AWS Backup. With Karthik Vijayraghavan (Nov. 2021).

• Simplify auditing your data protection policies with AWS Backup Audit Manager. With Jordan Bjorkman and Harshitha Putta (Nov. 2021).

• Enhance the security posture of your backups with AWS Backup Vault Lock. With Rolland Miller (Oct. 2021).

• How to retain resource tags in AWS Backup restore jobs. With Ibukun Oyewumi, Amee Shah, and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (Sep. 2021).

• Managing access to backups using service control policies with AWS Backup. With Sabith Venkitachalapathy and Ibukun Oyewumi (Aug. 2021).

• Automate centralized backup at scale across AWS services using AWS Backup. With Ibukun Oyewumi and Sabith Venkitachalapathy (Jul. 2021).

• Blog: How to simplify Microsoft SQL Server backup using AWS Backup and VSS. With Siavash Irani and Sepehr Samiei (Jul. 2021).

• Automate data recovery validation with AWS Backup. With Mahanth Jayadeva (Jun. 2021).

• Configuring notifications to monitor AWS Backup jobs. With Virgil Ennes (Jun. 2021).

• Automating backups and optimizing backup costs for Amazon EFS using AWS Backup. With Prachi Gupta and Rohit Verma (Jun. 2021).

• Manage Amazon EFS backup costs: AWS Backup support for cost allocation tags. With Aditya Maruvada (May 2021).

• Create and share encrypted backups across accounts and Regions using AWS Backup. With Prachi Gupta (May 2021).

• AWS Backup is now FedRAMP High approved for your compliance and data protection needs. With Andy Grimes (May 2021).

• ZS Associates enhances backup efficiency with AWS Backup. With Mitesh Naik, Hiranand Mulchandani, and Sushant Jadhav (May 2021).

• Tutorial: Amazon EBS Backup and Restore using AWS Backup. With Fathima Kamal (Apr. 2021).

• Video Tutorial: Managing Cross-Region Copies of Backups. With David DeLuca (Apr. 2021).

• Delete multiple AWS Backup recovery points using AWS Tools for PowerShell. With Sherif Talaat (Apr. 2021).

• Cross-region and cross-account backups for Amazon FSx using AWS Backup. With Adam Hunter and Fathima Kamal (Apr. 2021).

• Amazon CloudWatch Events and Metrics for AWS Backup. With Rolland Miller (Mar. 2021).

• Tutorial: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Backup and Restore using AWS Backup. With Fathima Kamal (Mar. 2021).

• Point-in-time recovery and continuous backup for Amazon RDS with AWS Backup. With Kelly Griffin (Mar. 2021).

• Automate AWS Backup with AWS Service Catalog. with John Husemoller (Jan. 2021).

• Secure data recovery with cross-account backup and Cross-Region copy using AWS Backup. With Cher Simon (Jan. 2021).

• AWS re:Invent recap: Data protection and compliance with AWS Backup. With Nancy Wang (Dec. 2020).

• AWS Backup provides centralized data protection across your AWS resources. With Nancy Wang (Nov. 2020).

• Tech Talk: Data protection at scale with AWS Backup. With Kareem Behairy (Sep. 2020).

• Centralized cross-account management with cross-Region copy using AWS Backup. With Cher Simon (Sep. 2020).

• Video Tutorial: Managing backups at scale in your AWS Organizations using AWS Backup. With Ildar Sharafeev (Jul. 2020).

• Managing backups at scale in your AWS Organizations using AWS Backup. With Nancy Wang, Avi Drabkin, Ganesh Sundaresan, and Vikas Shah (Jun. 2020).

• Recover Amazon EFS files and folders with AWS Backup. With Abrar Hussain and Gurudath Pai (May 2020).

• Scheduling automated backups using Amazon EFS and AWS Backup. With Rob Barnes (Dec. 2019).

• re:Invent Recording: AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on AWS Backup ft. Rackspace. With Nancy Wang and Jason Pavao (Dec. 2019).

• Protecting your data with AWS Backup. With Anthony Fiore (Jul. 2019).

• Marketing Video: Introducing AWS Backup. Jan. 2019.

• Video: Introduction to AWS Backup. With AWS Training and Certification.