Creating backup plans with AWS Backup
AWS Backup is a backup scheduling and storage tool for a wide range of AWS services, including RDS, DocumentDB, Neptune, and DynamoDB. AWS Backup allows you to create centralized and standardized backup policies to ensure compliance with an organization's RTO and RPO requirements and to simplify the control of backups and recoveries across an entire AWS account. AWS Backup can also be configured to back up on-premises resources by using a gateway, but this can only be used to back up virtual machines and servers rather than initializing a database-level backup. AWS backups are stored in a backup vault to protect them from unauthorized access.
AWS Backup allows you to define a large number of policies to meet your needs; these include the following:
