AWS Backup AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. It offers core data protection features, ransomware recovery capabilities, and compliance insights, simplifying data protection at exabyte scale. Key Features and Functionality: - Centralized, Policy-Based Data Protection: Manage backups across AWS storage, compute, database, and hybrid services, including Amazon S3, EBS, FSx, EFS, Storage Gateway, EC2, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Neptune, DocumentDB, Timestream, Redshift, SAP HANA on EC2, CloudFormation, and VMware workloads. - Automated Backup Scheduling and Retention Management: Define backup requirements and apply policies to AWS resources, with customizable schedules and retention policies to optimize storage costs. - Cross-Region and Cross-Account Backup: Copy backups across different AWS Regions and accounts to meet compliance and disaster recovery needs, providing an additional layer of protection. - Immutable Backups and Vault Lock: Create immutable backups and use logically air-gapped vaults as part of a defense-in-depth strategy to protect against ransomware and account compromise. - Data Protection Compliance Monitoring: Monitor, audit, and report on data protection policies and operations using real-time analytics and insights, ensuring compliance with organizational or regulatory requirements. Primary Value and Problem Solved: AWS Backup simplifies and automates the backup process, eliminating the need for custom scripts and manual processes. It provides a centralized, policy-based solution that ensures consistent data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. By offering features like cross-region backups, immutable backups, and compliance monitoring, AWS Backup helps organizations build a robust foundation for disaster recovery, protect against data loss and ransomware attacks, and meet regulatory compliance requirements.