Storage
CoreAWS Backup
Explicit centralized snapshot/backup automation and restore governance.
Key points
- AWS Backup centralizes supported backup plans, assignments, lifecycle, vaults, copies, jobs, and restore governance.
Best-known use cases
- D1.3, D2.3, and D3.2: schedule, copy, troubleshoot, or restore the named supported recovery point.
What candidates often confuse it with
- A backup plan schedules and governs copies; a vault stores recovery points and a restore test proves usability.
Key takeaway
Backup-job success is not recovery proof; validate permissions, dependencies, restored data, and elapsed time.
Related services
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon EFS
- Amazon FSx
Relevant exam tasks
- D1.3 — Task 1.3: Implement performance optimization strategies for compute, storage, and database resources.
- 1.3.1 — Optimize compute resources and remediate performance problems by using performance metrics, resource tags, and AWS tools.
- D2.3 — Task 2.3: Implement backup and restore strategies.
- 2.3.1 — Automate snapshots and backups for AWS resources (for example, EC2 instances, RDS DB instances, EBS volumes, S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables) by using AWS services (for example, AWS Backup).
- D3.2 — Task 3.2: Automate the management of existing resources.
- 3.2.1 — Use AWS services to automate operational processes (for example, Systems Manager).