Moving centralized backup management solutions to the cloud for higher availability

By using your existing backup management solution investments with AWS, you can improve the resilience and architecture of your approach. You might have a primary backup server and one or more media or storage servers located on-premises across multiple locations close to the servers and services they are protecting. In this case, consider moving the primary backup server to an EC2 instance to protect it from on-premises disasters and for high availability.

To manage the backup data flows, you can create one or more media servers on EC2 instances in the same Region as the servers they will protect. Media servers near the EC2 instances save you money on internet transfer. When you back up to Amazon S3, media servers increase overall backup and recovery performance.

You can also use Storage Gateway to provide centralized cloud access to data from geographically dispersed data centers and offices. For example, a file gateway gives you on-demand, low-latency access to data stored in AWS for application workflows that can span the globe. You can use features such as cache refresh to refresh data in geographically distributed locations so that content can be easily shared across your offices.