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AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. AWS Backup offers a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that further simplifies data protection at scale.
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**Issue**: AWS Backup failing to backup EKS cluster with access denied error
**Root Cause:** AWSServiceRoleForBackup lacks eks:CreateAccessEntry
permission.
**Failed Solutions Attempted:**
* Adding ...
AWS Backup cost for EFS gone up after reducing backup intensity. Before we have EFS backups daily with 7 days of retention. Now its changed to 3x a week with 3 days retention. But looks like since thi...
I have setup backup plans and jobs on both us-east-1, and us-east-2. The plans and jobs have executed on both regions, but us-east-1 dashboard shows no jobs, no backup plans, while it looks fine on u...
When trying to restore a DB snapshot in lightsail I am invariably faced with the error message "Sorry, our service is not available right now. Please try again later." Well needless to say I have trie...
Hi AWS Team, we are performing a backup audit activity where we need to apply AWS Backup plans as tags (K–V pairs) to resources within an AWS account, including S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, DocumentDB...
asked a month ago
Greetings,
I have a backup vault that has Vault Lock enabled in compliance mode. The goal of using Vault Lock in compliance mode is to prevent deletion of the backups even in the event the root user ...
Hi AWS, I have recently applied a backup plan as a tag to all S3 buckets and DynamoDB Tables in a given AWS account. The total count of resources is 587 which includes 156 DynamoDB Tables and 431 S3 b...
asked 2 months ago
I have been backing up an EFS using the AWS Managed Key "aws/backup", however, restoring from a recovery point is impossible because the managed key policy doesn't not allow for EFS to use it. You nee...
Hi AWS, we are implementing an automated backup-tagging solution for AWS resources (S3, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, RDS, EFS) as part of our audit and compliance requirements. AWS Backup plans are already d...
asked 2 months ago
How can I restore an EC2 instance using Powershell cmdlet Start-BAKRestoreJob without the newly created virtual machine automatically starting? I want it to remain in a stopped state and never start.
I got the restore job to kick-off with
```
$BackupJob = Get-BAKBackupJobList | ? ResourceName -eq "testrestore"
$BackupMetadata = [see below] -RecoveryPointArn $BackupJob.RecoveryPointArn -BackupVaul...
Hi all,
I’ve been testing the new EKS backup capability in AWS Backup and wanted to check whether cross-region backup/copy is supported for EKS clusters.
Environment
- Source region: eu-west-2
- Tar...