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June 11, 2020

Utilizing AWS Backup To Improve Your Recovery Time

Regardless of the size of your company, data backups and system recovery need to be a critical part of your IT operations and planning. Without a proper backup plan or recovery techniques put in place for when an IT disaster strikes, you are signing off on your business’s failure. Today, many technologies encompass the backup realm, and AWS has its own in-house feature to help you automatically back up and recover multiple other services too; AWS Backup.

AWS Backup is a fully-managed and automatic backup service first released by Amazon Web Services in January 2019 and was updated earlier this year. With this policy-based service, it is possible to automatically backup data from multiple AWS services in your cloud environments as well as your on-premises servers with the additional help of AWS Storage Gateway.

October 10, 2019

Top 5 Security Practices for AWS Backup

Make a backup of your backup's backup.

Cloud storage has become increasingly popular in recent years. Many companies choose to migrate their workload to the cloud, attracted by the low costs and high-availability. Although the cloud presents many benefits, most companies are concerned about the security of the data stored within. An effective backup service can help organizations protect their data while benefiting from cloud services.

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