Backup your EKS Clusters with AWS Backup

AWS Backup supports backups of Amazon EKS clusters, including Kubernetes cluster state and persistent storage attached to the EKS cluster via a persistent volume claim (EBS volumes, EFS file systems, and S3 buckets). An Amazon EKS backup will create a composite recovery point, where a child recovery point will be for each resource backed up.

• How to back up resources: Getting started with AWS Backup

• Backup creation by Resource Type: Amazon EKS Backups

• How to restore Amazon EKS clusters: Amazon EKS Backups restore

To get started via the EKS console, AWS Backup console or CLI ensure that your IAM role has the following permissions:

• These can be found in AWS Backup’s Managed policy AWSBackupServiceRolePolicyForBackup. This contains the required permissions to backup your Amazon EKS cluster and EBS and EFS persistent storage

• If your EKS Cluster contains an S3 bucket you will need to ensure the following policies and prequisites for your S3 bucket are added and enabled as documented:

• AWSBackupServiceRolePolicyForS3Backup

• Prerequisites for S3 Backups

Ensure your EKS Clusters have the following settings:

• EKS Cluster authorization mode set to API or API_AND_CONFIG_MAP for AWS Backup to create Access Entries to access the EKS cluster.