AWS Backup 101 Flashcards
What is the purpose of AWS Backup?
Customers want to manage and monitor backup processes across AWS services from a single place.
Why is AWS Backup needed?
Backing up data across AWS services requires time and resources to build and maintain scripts and processes.
What are AWS policies?
A policy and tag-based backup solution where customers can create backup policies called backup plans.
What are AWS Backup schedules?
Fully customizable backup schedules to meet business and regulatory backup requirements.
What is AWS Backup Retention?
Backup retention policies based on business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
What is AWS Backup lifecycle?
Enables customers to minimize backup storage costs by storing backups in a low cost cold storage tier.
What are AWS incremental backups?
First backup is a full copy of the data, subsequent copies only have the changed part of the resource saved.
What is a AWS access policy?
Enables customers to define resource-based policies to backup vault and define who has access to backups and what actions they can take.
What is AWS Backup encryption?
Encrypts customer backup data at rest and in transit.
What is AWS Backup resource?
Any AWS resource supported by AWS Backup for creating backups, for example, EFS.
What is AWS protected resource?
Resource that has at least one backup managed by AWS Backup.
What is AWS On-Demand Backup?
Backup initiated by manually by calling StartBackupJob public API.
What is AWS backup scheduled backup?
Backup initiated by a Backup Plan execution.
What is AWS backup vault?
Represents a collection of recovery points. Consider it a logical container for
backup snapshots.
What is backup plan?
Represents a named collection of rules. Each rule defines a backup schedule via a cron
expression and Backup Vault destination. The recovery points created by that rule will be
placed into the specified backup vault destination.
