AWS Backup centralizes and automates backups across many AWS services — EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, and more — from one place, with policies for scheduling and retention.
Why it beats per-service backups
Instead of configuring backups service by service, AWS Backup applies one backup plan across resources, enforces retention, and supports cross-Region and cross-account copies for DR. The tell is “centrally manage and automate backups across multiple services.”
Test yourself
A company wants to centrally schedule, manage, and enforce retention for backups across EBS, RDS, and DynamoDB from a single service. What should they use?
- Manual snapshots per service
- AWS Backup
- Amazon S3 versioning
- AWS Config
👉 Click to reveal the answer & explanation
Correct answer: B. AWS Backup centralizes and automates backups with policies across many services. Manual per-service snapshots (A) don’t centralize or enforce retention; S3 versioning (C) only covers S3 objects; Config (D) tracks configuration, not backups.
Related topics
Amazon RDS · Disaster Recovery Strategies · Amazon DynamoDB
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