Document history for AWS Backup
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API version: August 30, 2024
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Latest documentation update: September 12, 2024
The following table lists all AWS Backup launches since the launch of the service in January 2019 to present. For notifications about updates to this documentation you can subscribe to the RSS feed above.
| Change | Description | Date |
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| AWS Backup Audit Manager control for logically air-gapped vault | AWS Backup Audit Manager now offers the control Resources in a logically air-gapped vault to assist with monitoring that resources have been copied to a logically air-gapped vault within the time frame specified. For more information, see Controls and remediation and Audit restore testing. |
September 12, 2024 |
| AWS Backup feature Regional expansion |
AWS Backup customers can now create cross-Region copies of Amazon Neptune backups in more Regions, including Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE). For more information, see feature availability by Region and creating backup copies across AWS Regions. |
August 29. 2024 |
| AWS Backup supports cross-Region, cross-account copy for SAP HANA databases |
Users who have backed up SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 instances can now copy snapshots from full backups to other Regions and other accounts. For more information, see SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 instances. |
August 20, 2024 |
| AWS Backup now offers a new type of secure vault |
AWS Backup has introduced a secondary type of vault for storing copies of backups. Logically air-gapped vaults offer enhanced security features as well as the ability to share vault access with accounts through AWS RAM. For more information, see Logically air-gapped vault. |
August 7, 2024 |
| AWS Backup feature Regional expansion |
AWS Backup support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is now available in Canada West (Calgary). Customers can now backup and restore resources within the Canada West (Calgary) Region. For more information on AWS Backup Amazon S3 Region availability, see Supported Services by AWS Region. |
June 27, 2024 |
| Logically air-gapped vault preview closure |
Logically air-gapped vault preview has ended. |
June 27, 2024 |
| AWS Backup feature Regional expansion |
AWS Backup support of Amazon EBS snapshot archive tier is now available in the following Regions:
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June 3, 2024 |
| Updated AWS managed policies |
AWS Backup added permission
For more information, see Policy updates. |
May 17, 2024 |
| AWS Backup now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region | Backup and restore for many resource types are now available in AWS Region Canada West (Calgary). For compatible backup features, see Feature availability by AWS Region. For supported resource types, see Supported services by AWS Region. |
March 14, 2024 |
| Added permissions to managed policy |
AWS Backup updated the policy AWSServiceRolePolicyForBackupRestoreTesting by adding permissions to support additional resource types within the restore testing feature. For more information on the specific permissions added, see Policy updates. |
February 14, 2024 |
| Backup and restore support for FSx for ONTAP FlexGroup volumes | AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of FSx for ONTAP FlexGroup volumes in most AWS Regions. For more information, see Restoring an Amazon FSx file system . |
January 10, 2024 |
| Support for SAP HANA HA backup and restore |
AWS Backup now offers support SAP HANA High Availability databases on Amazon EC2 backup and restore. For more information, see SAP HANA on Amazon EC2 backups and Restoring an SAP HANA High Availability system |
December 21, 2023 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager control for restore testing | AWS Backup Audit Manager now offers the control Restore time for resources meet target to assist with monitoring restore times. This control checks if the restore time of a resource meets the target duration. For more information, see Controls and remediation and Audit restore testing. |
December 18, 2023 |
| Support for Amazon EBS cold storage | AWS Backup now supports transitioning EBS backups from warm to cold storage. For more information, see | November 27, 2023 |
| Introducing restore testing |
AWS Backup introduces restore testing, which brings automated and periodic evaluation of restore viability, as well as the ability to monitor restore job duration times. For more information, see Restore testing. |
November 27, 2023 |
| Updated AWS managed policies |
AWS Backup added the permissions
These permissions are necessary for users to have the option to transition Amazon EBS resources stored with AWS Backup to archive storage and to restore resources from the archive storage tier. For more information, see Policy updates. |
November 27, 2023 |
| Added pass role permission to support restore testing. |
AWS Backup added |
November 27, 2023 |
| Added new service-linked role |
AWS Backup has added the new service-linked role named This new service-linked role provides AWS Backup with permissions necessary to
conduct restore testing. The permissions include the actions |
November 27, 2023 |
| New job metric dashboard in the AWS Backup console |
The AWS Backup console now displays a jobs dashboard, simplifying backup health monitoring at scale with a new visual user interface and aggregated backup, copy, and restore metrics for services supported by AWS Backup. The jobs dashboard is available in all Regions where AWS Backup Audit Manager is available. Regions not listed will still be able to access the CloudWatch dashboard. For more information, see AWS Backup console dashboards. |
November 15, 2023 |
| Support for nested stack backups |
AWS Backup has expanded its support for backups of AWS CloudFormation resources. Your CloudFormation application stacks that have nested stacks within them can be included in your backups. For more information, see CloudFormation stack backups. |
November 8, 2023 |
| Support for Amazon S3 in China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia). |
AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is now available in China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions. For more information, see Feature availability by Region. |
October 26, 2023 |
| Support for Amazon Aurora continuous backups and Point-in-time restore |
AWS Backup now supports continuous backups and point-in-time restore (PITR) for Aurora resources. For more information, see Continuous backups and Point-in-time recovery. |
September 7, 2023 |
| AWS CloudFormation stacks support exclusion of resources |
AWS Backup now supports the option to exclude chosen resources from your AWS CloudFormation stack. For more information, see AWS CloudFormation stack backups. |
September 6, 2023 |
| Backup plan rules introduce timezone flexibility |
AWS Backup plan rules can now have a specified timezone for backup windows. For more information, see Managing backup plans. |
August 28, 2023 |
| AWS Backup now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region | Many AWS Backup features are now available in the new Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. To see what resources are supported, visit Feature availability by AWS Region. |
August 22, 2023 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager now supports delegated administrator accounts |
AWS Backup Audit Manager report generation can now be accessed by delegated administrator accounts. For more information, see |
August 16, 2023 |
| AWS Backup enhances Amazon S3 backups | AWS Backup has increased performance, size, and speed capabilities for S3 bucket backups. For more information, see Amazon S3 backups. |
August 1, 2023 |
| Tag on restore feature now available in China Regions | Tags that are part of a backup can now be copied when you create a restore job in China (Beijing) or China (Ningxia) Regions. For more information, see Copy tags during a restore. |
July 17, 2023 |
| AWS Backup now supports Amazon S3 in additional Regions |
AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions. For more information, see Feature availability by Region. |
July 6, 2023 |
| Cross-account copy expands to additional Regions | AWS Backup now supports cross-account backup copy of most resources in the following Regions: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Middle East (UAE) , Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). For more information, see Feature availability by Region |
July 5, 2023 |
| Backup Audit Manager available in GovCloud Regions |
AWS Backup has expanded AWS Backup Audit Manager into AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). For more information, see Feature availability by Region |
June 29, 2023 |
| Cross-account management now available in GovCloud Regions | AWS Backup now supports cross-account management of resources in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). For more information, see Managing AWS Backup resources across multiple AWS accounts. |
June 29, 2023 |
| Support for cross-Region copies of Amazon Aurora in additional Regions | AWS Backup now supports cross-Region backup copies for Aurora clusters into and from the following Regions: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Middle East (UAE) , Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). | June 5, 2023 |
| Copy tags when restoring | Tags that are part of a backup can now be copied when you create a restore job. For more information, see Copy tags during a restore. |
May 22, 2023 |
| AWS Backup integrates with AWS User Notifications |
You can now choose to receive notifications related to backup, copy,
and restore events through the AWS User Notifications console For more information, see Getting started with AWS User Notifications. |
May 10, 2023 |
| Cross-Region backups available in four new Regions | AWS Backup now supports cross-Region backup in Middle East (UAE) Region, Europe (Spain) Region, Europe (Zurich) Region, and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. | April 28, 2023 |
| Expanded cross-Region AWS Backup copy support | Cross-Region backups of Amazon EFS, VMware, and DynamoDB resources can now be conducted within the following Regions: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan). | April 28, 2023 |
| Amazon S3 backup and restore in South America (São Paulo) Region | AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) is now available in South America (São Paulo) Region. For more information, see Amazon S3 backups. |
April 20, 2023 |
| AWS Backup expands to Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region | AWS Backup is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. For more information, see Feature availability by AWS Region. |
April 20, 2023 |
| Expanded Regional support for Amazon S3 | AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions For more information, see Amazon S3 backups. |
April 19, 2023 |
| Backup and restore SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 instances | AWS Backup now offers the ability to backup and restore SAP HANA databases running on Amazon EC2 instances in most Regions. For more information, see SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 instances backup. |
April 17, 2023 |
| AWS Backup now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions | AWS Backup support has expanded to new Regions, including Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Supported resources can be backed up and restored within these Regions. For more information, see Feature availability by AWS Region. |
April 13, 2023 |
Updated AWS managed policy
AWSBackupAuditAccess |
Updated AWS managed policy AWSBackupAuditAccess. AWS Backup replaced the resource selection
within the API For more information see Policy updates for AWS Backup. |
April 11, 2023 |
| Hypervisors with Amazon CloudWatch Logs | AWS Backup gateway users can now integrate hypervisors with CloudWatch Logs to maintain logs. For more information, see Editing a hypervisor configuration and CloudWatch Logs. | March 29, 2023 |
| Expanded Regional support for Amazon S3 | AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. |
March 22, 2023 |
| Virtual machine incremental backup improvement | VMware VM (virtual machine) backups that experience CBT (Changed Block Tracking) data issues now contain additional information to help remedy and troubleshoot. For more information, see Incremental VM backups and Troubleshoot your virtual machines. |
March 15, 2023 |
| AWS Backup support for multiple network adapters |
AWS Backup gateway now supports configuring multiple network adapters For more information on configuring your network adapters, see Configure your gateway for multiple NICs in VMware in the AWS Backup Developer Guide. |
March 8, 2023 |
| AWS Backup support for vSphere 8 |
AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of virtual machines which run on VMware vSphere 8. For more information on supported VMware options, see Supported VMs in the AWS Backup Developer Guide. |
March 8, 2023 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager supports Amazon RDS Multi-AZ backups |
Backup Audit Manager now offers support for Amazon Relational Database Service Multi-Availability Zone backups. For more information, see how to audit backups and create reports with AWS Backup Audit Manager. |
February 1, 2023 |
| AWS Backup offers incremental backup for Amazon Timestream tables | AWS Backup now offers expanded backup capabilities for Timestream backups. Backup plans can now take incremental backups to lower the time required to backup Timestream resources and lower storage costs. For more information, see Amazon Timestream backups. |
January 23, 2023 |
| AWS Backup now available in Dubai | AWS Backup has expanded to the Middle East (UAE) Region. Supported resources can be backed up and restored within this Region. | January 17, 2023 |
| Cross-Region copying available in additional Regions | AWS Backup now offers cross-Region backups in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, Middle East (Bahrain) Region, Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, Africa (Cape Town) Region, and Europe (Milan) Region for most resources. For more information, see Creating backup copies across AWS Regions. |
December 21, 2022 |
| Backup Gateway Bandwidth Limits and Throttling | AWS Backup Gateway now allows limits on the upload throughput from gateways to AWS Backup to control the amount of network bandwidth used by the gateway. To support this feature, AWS Backup has created and updated
managed policies, including For more information, see Backup Gateway bandwidth throttling. |
December 15, 2022 |
| Backup Gateway VMware tag support | AWS Backup Gateway now supports VMware tags. Users have the additional flexibility to create AWS tags that match tags used for virtual machines. To support this feature, AWS Backup has created and updated
managed policies, including
For more information, see VMware tags. |
December 15, 2022 |
| AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream | AWS Backup now supports backing up and restoring Amazon Timestream tables. For more information, see Amazon Timestream backup. | December 13, 2022 |
| AWS Backup offers Legal Hold | AWS Backup introduces a new tool to help protect recovery points through a legal hold. For more information see Legal hold. |
November 27, 2022 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager cross-Region and cross-account reporting | AWS Backup Audit Manager brings additional functionality to compliance and job reports. Users can generate reports incorporating multiple Regions and multiple accounts. For more information, see Working with audit reports. |
November 27, 2022 |
| AWS Backup supports Amazon Redshift | AWS Backup now offers support to backup Amazon Redshift clusters and to restore Amazon Redshift clusters and tables. For more information, see Amazon Redshift backups. | November 27, 2022 |
| AWS Backup offers support to backup AWS CloudFormation application stacks | AWS Backup provides the capability to backup CloudFormation and restore applications containing multiple resources by backing up a stack and restoring the resources within it. For more information, see Application stack backups. |
November 27, 2022 |
| AWS Backup offers delegated administrator accounts and backup policy delegation |
AWS Backup accounts enrolled in AWS Organizations can designate member accounts as delegated administrator accounts. For more information, see Managing multiple accounts with AWS Organizations. |
November 27,2022 |
Public Preview of SAP HANA on Amazon EC2 Instances backup and restore |
AWS Backup and AWS Backint are offering an integrated public preview of functionality to backup and restore SAP HANA databases on EC2 instances. For more information, see our Public Preview of SAP HANA on Amazon EC2 instances. To support this preview, AWS Backup has provided policy updates and new AWS Managed Policies for these features. |
November 20, 2022 |
| Restore VMware to Amazon EC2 instances | AWS Backup now offers the ability to restore virtual machines to Amazon EC2 instances, in addition to the ability to restore machines to EBS, VMware, VMware Cloud on AWS, and VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. For more information, see documentation on how to Use the AWS Backup console to restore virtual machine recovery points. |
November 9, 2022 |
| Expanded AWS Backup Vault Lock functionality | AWS Backup Vault Lock can be now created in governance mode for additional IAM protections or in compliance mode to ensure immutability. Learn more at AWS Backup Vault Lock. |
October 4, 2022 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region and Europe (Milan) Region | AWS Backup Audit Manager has expanded to Africa (Cape Town) Region and Europe (Milan) Region. For more information on Backup Audit Manager, see Audit backups and create reports with AWS Backup Audit Manager. | September 14, 2022 |
| AWS Backup brings Amazon CloudWatch metrics to Backup console dashboard | AWS Backup enhances its Backup console dashboard to display integrated Amazon CloudWatch metrics for backup and restore jobs for additional monitoring capability and flexibility. | September 8, 2022 |
| Support for additional Amazon EBS encryption flexibility during restore | AWS Backup now offers additional choices of encryption during restoration of Amazon EBS snapshots. | September 1, 2022 |
| AWS Backup supports Amazon S3 cross-account and cross-Region backup copying | AWS Backup now offers cross-Region and cross-account backup copying for Amazon S3 backups. For more information see Amazon S3 backups. |
July 28, 2022 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager offers additional control support for FSx for ONTAP | AWS Backup Audit Manager now offers additional controls to support monitoring and auditing FSx for ONTAP volumes, including Backup resources are included in at least one backup plan and Last recovery point created. For more information, see AWS Backup Audit Manager controls and remediation. |
July 22, 2022 |
| AWS Backup adds support to backup and restore Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters for PostgreSQL and MySQL clusters | AWS Backup has added a Multi-Availability Zone cluster backup and restore option with one primary and two readable standby database instances. To learn more, see Amazon RDS Multi-AZ backups. |
July 20, 2022 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager adds new control for recovery point creation | AWS Backup Audit Manager offers a new audit control for increased compliance support.
To learn more, see Last recovery point created control. |
June 29, 2022 |
| Added AWS Backup Gateway endpoint sample | AWS Backup Gateway provided a sample endpoint to assist users with connecting to VPNs (Virtual Private Networks). For more information, see Creating a AWS Backup VPC endpoint. |
June 14, 2022 |
| AWS Backup now offers Amazon VPC endpoints for VMware | AWS Backup now supports Amazon VPC endpoints for VMware, enabling you to use a virtual private network between your VMware environments and AWS using AWS PrivateLink. For more information, see Creating a gateway and AWS Backup and AWS PrivateLink. |
June 1, 2022 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager offers additional control support for Amazon S3 | Backup Audit Manager now offers support for the compliance control Backup resources protected by backup plan for S3 resource types. For more information, see AWS Backup Audit Manager controls and remediation. |
May 25, 2022 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager offers additional control support for Storage Gateway | Backup Audit Manager now offers support for the compliance control Backup resources protected by backup plan for Storage Gateway resource types. For more information, see AWS Backup Audit Manager controls and remediation. |
May 25, 2022 |
| Support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS | AWS Backup now offers added management of data protection for backing up and restoring to FSx for OpenZFS file systems. | May 18, 2022 |
| AWS Backup Audit Manager support for VMware | AWS Backup now provides support for virtual machines in the Backup Audit Manager controls and remediation. For more information, see AWS Backup Audit Manager controls and remediation. | May 11, 2022 |
| Amazon FSx now supported in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region | AWS Backup now offers backing up Amazon FSx in, and cross-Region copies to and from, the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. | April 26, 2022 |
| Support for Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent_2 | AWS Backup now offers general availability of support for Amazon FSx for Lustre, which supports higher levels of throughput per storage unit as compared to Persistent_1 file systems. | April 5, 2022 |
| VMware Enhancements | AWS Backup now offers restoring to Amazon EBS Volume, disk level restore, and support for VMware on AWS Outposts. For more information, see Restoring a virtual machine. | March 31, 2022 |
| AWS Backup Availability for Asia Pacific (Jakarta) | AWS Backup is now available to customers in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. | March 17, 2022 |
| New Controls for AWS Backup Audit Manager | AWS Backup Audit Manager introduces three new audit controls: Cross-Region copy, Cross-account copy, and Backup Vault Lock. For more information, see AWS Backup Audit Manager controls and remediation. | March 17, 2022 |
| Support for AWS PrivateLink | With AWS PrivateLink for AWS Backup, you can connect directly to AWS Backup using an interface endpoint in your VPC instead of connecting over the public internet. Interface endpoints are directly accessible from applications that are on premises or in a different AWS Region. For more information, see AWS Backup and AWS PrivateLink. | February 28, 2022 |
| Support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) | General availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in all AWS Regions is available except for China (Beijing) Region, China (Ningxia) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-West), and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. For more information, see Working with Amazon S3 data. | February 14, 2022 |
| Support for Advanced DynamoDB backup in AWS China Regions | Advanced DynamoDB backup is now available in China (Beijing) Region and China (Ningxia) Region. For more information, see Advanced DynamoDB backup. | January 18, 2022 |
| Public preview of support for Amazon S3 | AWS Backup offers a public preview of Amazon S3 backups. For more information, see Working with Amazon S3 data. | November 30, 2021 |
| Support for VMware virtual machines (VMs) | You can now use AWS Backup to automatically back up VMware VMs. For more information, see Virtual machine backups. | November 30, 2021 |
| Support for advanced DynamoDB backup | You can now use AWS Backup to perfrom the following features for all new DynamoDB table backups you create: cold storage tiering, cost allocation tagging, cross-Region copy, cross-account copy, indpendent encryption, and copying tags from source DynamoDB tables. For more information, see Advanced DynamoDB backup in the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide and Using AWS Backup with DynamoDB. | November 23, 2021 |
| Support for AWS Backup resource assignment enhancement in AWS China Regions | AWS Backup resource assignment enhancement is now available in China (Beijing) Region and China (Ningxia) Region. For more information, see Assigning resources to a backup plan. | November 16, 2021 |
| Launch of AWS Backup resource assignment enhancement | Backup resource assignment enhancement gives you additional, fine-grained controls and new streamlined processes to deploy backup plans that protect hundreds of thousands of AWS resources. Use this feature to increase your speed, flexibility, and precision when protecting data using AWS Backup. For more information, see Assigning resources to a backup plan. | November 10, 2021 |
| Support for Amazon Neptune | You can now use AWS Backup to back up Amazon Neptune clusters. To learn more, see What is AWS Backup? | November 5, 2021 |
| Support for Amazon DocumentDB | You can now use AWS Backup to back up Amazon DocumentDB clusters. To learn more, see What is AWS Backup? | November 5, 2021 |
| Support for AWS Backup Vault Lock in AWS China Regions | AWS Backup Vault Lock is now available in China (Beijing) Region and China (Ningxia) Region. For more information, see AWS Backup Vault Lock. | November 3, 2021 |
| Launch of AWS Backup Vault Lock | With AWS Backup Vault Lock, you can prevent deletion of backups stored in an AWS Backup backup vault. For more information, see AWS Backup Vault Lock. | October 7, 2021 |
| Launch of AWS Backup Audit Manager compliance reports | With compliance reports, you can generate daily reports on the compliance of your backup activity and resources against the controls you defined in your AWS Backup Audit Manager frameworks. For more information, see Compliance report templates. | October 5, 2021 |
| AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Backup Audit Manager | With AWS CloudFormation, you can now deploy AWS Backup Audit Manager frameworks, controls, and report plans in a safe, repeatable manner at scale. For more information, see Backup audit and reports with AWS Backup Audit Manager. | October 4, 2021 |
| Launch of AWS Backup Audit Manager | With AWS Backup Audit Manager, you can now define controls for your backup activity and resources, and identify the activites and resources that do not comply with your controls. You can also use AWS Backup Audit Manager to generate daily and on-demand reports that serve as evidence of compliance with your defined controls over time. For more information, see Backup audit and reports with AWS Backup Audit Manager. | August 24, 2021 |
| Support for new asynchronous recovery point operations | AWS Backup now assumes a service-linked role to manage your backup lifecycle rules in the event that you modified or deleted your original IAM role. For more information, see Deleting backups. | August 23, 2021 |
| Support for Amazon EBS multi-volume, crash-consistent backup | Now, when you use AWS Backup to protect your Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Backup takes multi-volume, crash-consistent backups of all the Amazon EBS volumes attached to each Amazon EC2 instance by default. For more information, see Creating Amazon EBS multi-volume, crash-consistent backup. | June 14, 2021 |
| Support for Amazon FSx in additional AWS Regions | You can now use AWS Backup to protect your Amazon FSx file systems in the following Regions: AWS GovCloud (US), Europe (Milan) Region, Africa (Cape Town) Region, and Middle East (Bahrain) Region. For more information, see AWS Backup endpoints and quotas in the AWS General Reference. | April 15, 2021 |
| Support for Amazon FSx cross-Region and cross-account backups | You can now use AWS Backup to copy Amazon FSx backups across AWS Regions and accounts. For more information, see Creating a Backup Copy. If you use customer managed policies, you should add the new
permission |
April 12, 2021 |
| Support for cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS backups | You can now use cost allocation tags to track costs for your Amazon EFS backups on a detailed level, and view and filter those tags using AWS Cost Explorer. For more information, see Using Cost Allocation Tags. | April 7, 2021 |
| FedRAMP High Authorization | AWS Backup is now authorized to support FedRAMP High workloads. For more
information, see AWS Services in Scope by Compliance Program |
March 25, 2021 |
| New AWS Region | AWS Backup is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. In this Region, AWS Backup currently does not support Storage Gateway, Amazon FSx, and cross-account backup in this Region. For more information, see AWS Backup endpoints and quotas in the AWS General Reference. | March 25, 2021 |
| Support for recovery point batch operations | You can now use the AWS Backup console to automate batch operations to clean up recovery points in your backup vaults. For more information, see Deleting backups. | March 23, 2021 |
| Support for restores to the Amazon EFS One Zone storage class | You can now restore your Amazon EFS backups to the Amazon EFS One Zone storage class. For more information, see Restoring an Amazon EFS file system. | March 12, 2021 |
| Support for Amazon Relational Database Service point-in-time restore and continuous backup | You can now use AWS Backup to automate Amazon RDS continuous backups and perform point-in-time restore (PITR), in addition to orchestrating your snapshot backups. For more information, see Restoring to a specified time using point-in-time recovery. | March 10, 2021 |
| Support for Amazon CloudWatch | You can now use CloudWatch to monitor AWS Backup metrics. For more information, see Monitoring Events and Metrics with Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge. | February 3, 2021 |
| Support for Amazon EventBridge | You can now use EventBridge to monitor AWS Backup events. For more information, see Monitoring Events and Metrics with Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge. | February 3, 2021 |
| Support for cross-account backups | You can now use AWS Backup to back up your resources across multiple AWS accounts. For more information, see Creating backup copies across AWS accounts. | November 18, 2020 |
| Support for backing up and restoring Amazon FSx file systems | You can now use AWS Backup to back up Amazon FSx file systems. For more information, see Working with Amazon FSx file systems. | November 9, 2020 |
| New AWS Regions | AWS Backup is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. For more information, see AWS Backup endpoints and quotas in the AWS General Reference. | October 21, 2020 |
| Support for VSS-Enabled Windows backup | You can now back up and restore VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service)-enabled Windows applications running on Amazon EC2 instances. For more information, see Creating Windows VSS backups. | September 22, 2020 |
| Support for Amazon EFS automatic backup | You can now use AWS Backup to automatically back up Amazon EFS file systems. For more information, see Getting started 4: Create Amazon EFS automatic backups. | July 16, 2020 |
| New AWS Region | AWS Backup is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. For more information, see AWS Backup endpoints and quotas in the AWS General Reference. | June 24, 2020 |
| Support for managing backups across multiple AWS accounts | You can now manage backups across multiple AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations. For more information, see How Cross-Account Management Works. | June 24, 2020 |
| Support for Amazon Aurora added to AWS Backup | You can now configure AWS Backup to back up resources for Amazon Aurora. For information, see Overview of Backing Up and Restoring an Aurora DB Cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide. | June 10, 2020 |
| Support for configuring services to work with AWS Backup | You can now configure AWS Backup to back up resources for specific AWS services. For more information, see Opt in to managing services with AWS Backup. | May 20, 2020 |
| Support for backing up Amazon EC2 instances and also adds support for cross-Region backup | You can now back up entire Amazon EC2 instances and also copy resources across AWS Regions. For more information, see Creating backup copies across AWS Regions. | January 13, 2020 |
| New guide | AWS launches AWS Backup and the AWS Backup Developer Guide. | January 15, 2019 |
