Document history
The following table describes significant changes to this guide. If you want to be notified about future updates, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Updated information | Updated guidance in the Amazon S3 section. | June 28, 2024 |
Updated information | Updated information in the On-premises DR to AWS section. | April 13, 2023 |
Added a section | Added guidance and steps for creating or restoring an instance from a snapshot. | March 7, 2023 |
Added information about Elastic Disaster Recovery and added clarification | In the Disaster recovery with AWS and Choosing AWS services for data protection sections, added information about AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. In the Amazon EC2 backup and recovery with snapshots and AMIs, Preparing an EBS volume before creating a snapshot or AMI, and Restoring from an Amazon EBS snapshot or an AMI sections, added clarification. Added to the Backup and recovery FAQ. | January 19, 2023 |
Added a link | Added a link to the Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager documentation in the Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager section. | October 31, 2022 |
Updated information | Updated the information about restoring volumes. | August 30, 2022 |
Updated information and added new section | In the Choosing AWS services for data protection section, added services. Added the section Backup and recovery using AWS Backup. In the Backup and recovery using Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier section, added information about new Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes. In the Backup and recovery for Amazon EC2 with EBS volumes section, added links to documentation and additional information. In the Backup and recovery of cloud-native AWS services section, added a recommendation to use AWS Backup. In the Additional resources section, added resources. | January 28, 2022 |
Updated information | Added information about setting storage classes to the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval section. Added information about retrieving snapshots to the Amazon EC2 backup and recovery with snapshots and AMIs section. | September 9, 2021 |
Updated information | In the AWS Backup section, added information about the AWS services that AWS Backup supports. | June 1, 2021 |
Initial publication | — | July 29, 2020 |
