Backup with AWS
Protect your growing data stores,
while enhancing security and durability
Table of Contents
3 Backup Solutions in Today’s Data Landscape
4 Benefits of Backing Up to AWS
6 Architecting Backup for the Cloud
8 AWS Partner Network and the Storage Competency
9 How to Get Started
BACKUP SOLUTIONS IN
TODAY’S DATA LANDSCAPE
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Regardless of industry, size, or location, all organizations experience data loss caused by myriad
events – from unintentional system failures to data center shutdowns. While there are measures
you can take to mitigate data-loss events, the most effective data-protection method is having
an enterprise-wide backup solution.
Everything fails, all the time.
– Werner Vogels, AWS CTO
Backup in the current data landscape New challenges, new tools
Due to the exponential growth of data worldwide, A growing number of organizations are extending
designing and deploying backup solutions is more on-premises backup capabilities to the cloud in
complicated than before. The International Data order to accommodate this data growth. While
Corporation predicts global data will grow to 163 the cloud offers numerous benefits, designing and
zettabytes by 2025, which is 10 times the amount deploying an agile backup solution in the cloud
of data generated in 2016.* requires careful consideration of your existing IT
investments, current operating environment, and
recovery objectives.
2016 16ZB
163 ZB How do you achieve greater storage
scalability and control, without sacrificing security?
2025
Traditional backup methods such as tape
libraries cannot quickly scale to this growth and
maintaining them and paying for offsite archival
services can be prohibitively expensive.
THIS IS WHERE AMAZON WEB SERVICES CAN HELP.
Data Age 2025, IDC and Seagate, April 2017, [Link]
*
BENEFITS OF BACKING UP TO AWS
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been providing cloud IT infrastructure services to
hundreds of thousands of organizations. With AWS, companies can accommodate fluctuating backup 4
demands in minutes, and no longer waste weeks or months procuring servers and other infrastructure.
In addition to increased scalability, organizations are realizing major benefits of extending backup
targets to the AWS Cloud:
COST EFFICIENCIES AND REDUCTION OF TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP
With pay-as-you-go pricing, no upfront capital investments, and cost management tools,
AWS customers can spend efficiently. When properly designed, extending backups to the
AWS Cloud can serve as the first step in reducing total cost of ownership and your physical
data center footprint.
ENHANCED DATA DURABILITY AND AVAILABILITY
Our data security and replication protocols are designed to deliver 99.999999999%
durability for all objects stored in AWS. Copies of every object are distributed across at
least three physical Availability Zones that are miles apart within an AWS Region. Even
when practicing industry best practices, on-premises capabilities cannot match AWS’
durability due to our global scale.
MORE SECURITY WITH AWS THAN ON-PREMISES
All AWS customers benefit from a data center and network architecture built to meet
the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations in the most regulated
industries, such as Financial Services, Public Sector, and Healthcare. We offer services to
manage account access, detect irregular activity, isolate DDoS attacks, encrypt data in
transit and at rest, and perform audits. AWS also maintains numerous security assurance
programs, which means segments of your compliance are already completed.
ACCESS TO THE LATEST MACHINE LEARNING AND ANALYTICS TOOLS
Another benefit of backing up to AWS is the access your backup data has to the latest
cloud-native applications for artificial intelligence, machine learning (ML), analytics,
and business intelligence. This means you can extract insights from data sets that in
traditional backup architectures would sit idle until recovered for production.
AWS’ data center and network architecture is built to meet the requirements of the most
security-sensitive organizations in the world. This is why enterprises like Kellogg’s, Unilever,
NASA JPL, Thomson Reuters, and the Financial Times back up and protect data with AWS.
ON-PREMISES BACKUP AWS-POWERED BACKUP
Wait weeks or months Scale IT resources
for resources on-demand
Store backups with
limited durability
Store backups with
11 9’s of durability 5
Operate with Operate with
in-house security global-scale security
Leave backup Run ML and analytics
data idle on backup data
“Most important to us is that we save time. Backups are not a strategic part of
our business…. We were looking to hire people to support this archaic system and
now we’re looking to reutilize these guys to help with our acquisitions and build
out better infrastructures for us.”
– Jason Cradit, Senior Director of Technology at TRC Solution
STORAGE SERVICES
AWS offers the most storage services to store and protect AWS is designed to deliver
data in the cloud. All of these services are supported by the on a customer promise of
AWS infrastructure, which allows them to be flexible, durable, 99.999999999%
scalable, and secure. durability of objects stored
AMAZON SIMPLE STORAGE SERVICE in Amazon S3 and
(AMAZON S3) Object storage Amazon S3 Glacier.
AMAZON S3 GLACIER In theory, you can expect
Cold storage / Archive
a loss of one object of 10
million stored in AWS, every
AWS STORAGE GATEWAY
Hybrid storage 10,000 years.
AWS BACKUP
Fully managed backup service
ARCHITECTING BACKUP FOR THE CLOUD
There are a range of architectural designs you can choose from that leverage the benefits of
the AWS Cloud. If your current infrastructure and data are on-premises, consider a hybrid-cloud 6
solution. For organizations already running on AWS, there are efficient cloud-native designs and
features that can maximize your backup strategy and evolve it into more complex workloads for
archiving and disaster recovery.
HYBRID-CLOUD BACKUP ARCHITECTURE PRO TIP
A lot of commonly-used backup software have To increase your ability to scale, protect, and
built-in cloud connectors that, when enabled, restore backups, consider hosting backup
engines and points of control in AWS
can send data backups to the AWS Cloud for short-
(as opposed to on premises). This modification
and long-term storage. If your on-premises backup
can facilitate faster data restores for use with
software cannot write directly to the cloud, use a the latest AWS Cloud-native applications for
gateway service such as AWS Storage Gateway to machine learning and analytics. In-cloud data
create a seamless connection between your restores are also critically helpful when data
centers are corrupted or unavailable; you can
on-premises environment and AWS storage services
replicate your on-premises environment in
Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier. During a restore,
the cloud using AWS services and continue
backup data is pulled back to the on-premises running applications with your backup data.
environment and reinstatiated for production.
Networking Options
Amazon S3
Backup Local S3 AWS Storage
Master Server Backup Target Gateway
AWS Direct VPN Internet
Connect Gateway
VTL Backup Target S3 API Amazon S3 Glacier
Backup Clients Partner
Backup Target Options AWS Region
Backup Software
Customer Data Center
Partner provided solution in blue. On-Premises Cloud (AWS)
CLOUD-NATIVE BACKUP ARCHITECTURE
When your backup software, engines, servers, data, and storage are hosted on AWS, all these
resources automatically scale to demand. There are no external resources required and customers
can deploy solutions supported by the AWS Partner Network (APN) if collaborating with a
third-party is preferred (see the AWS Partner Network section on page 8 for more information).
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Customers can use the Amazon EBS snapshot feature to back up and protect databases and file
systems that are running on AWS’ compute service Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Partner
VPC Backup Software
Customer Backup Backup / S3 Endpoint Backup Target
Backup Client Master Server Restore
Amazon Amazon
S3 S3 Glacier
AWS Region
Partner provided solution in blue.
AMAZON EBS SNAPSHOTS
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides the underlying storage for applications that run
on Amazon EC2, such as databases and file systems. This means customers can use the Amazon EBS
snapshot feature to back up and protect these applications and their respective data sets. It works by
creating an exact replica of an Amazon EBS volume at a specific point-in-time.
After an EBS snapshot is created, it is stored as an object in an Amazon S3 bucket and inherits the data
durability and replication features that support all other objects stored in Amazon S3. Amazon EBS
snapshots are incremental, which means only changes since the last snapshot are saved.
CLOUD-NATIVE BACKUP ACROSS AWS SERVICES
AWS Backup is a fully managed, policy-based backup solution that makes it easy to automatically
back up your application data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises using the
AWS Storage Gateway. AWS Backup’s policies provide automated backup scheduling, backup
retention management, and lifecycle rules, helping to streamline backup processes. AWS Backup’s
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centralized backup monitoring, backup encryption, and backup access policy features help you to
meet internal and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Amazon EFS
AWS Storage Monitor
Gateway
Amazon Modify
DynamoDB
AWS Backup Create backup plan Backup
Makes it easy to centrally Backup frequency, Amazon RDS Resources automatically Restore
manage backups in the AWS retention policy backed up according to
Cloud via console, APIs, or CLI backup plan using
Amazon S3
Amazon EBS
Assign AWS resources
AWS Backup supports backing up Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB
tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes and stores your backup data
durably and securely using Amazon S3.
AWS PARTNER NETWORK, THE STORAGE
COMPETENCY, AND THE AWS MARKETPLACE
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For organizations with complex legacy IT investments, extending backup targets to the AWS Cloud
may require significant resource reallocations, budget changes, and training.
To help, the AWS Partner Network (APN) – the largest ecosystem of cloud service providers –
recognizes Storage Competency Partners that can help deploy backup strategies that leverage AWS
services and your existing IT investments and processes. All APN partners have validated their technical
AWS expertise and proven customer success of their services and products. If your on-premises
backup provider is already an APN member, you can work with them directly to enable built-in cloud
connectors or deploy gateways that extend backup targets to the AWS Cloud. For customers looking
for new capabilities, the APN can help narrow down the list of providers that best fit your requirements
and then you can explore their solutions on the AWS Marketplace.
The AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog offering 3,500+ software listings from 1,100+
independent software vendors recognized by the APN for AWS expertise and proven customer
success. Find, buy, and start using backup solutions today.
Whether you’re extending on-premises backup targets to the cloud or creating cloud-native processes,
working with an APN backup provider and the AWS Marketplace offers these benefits:
LEVERAGING BUILT-IN CAPABILITIES EASING THE CONSTRAINTS OF DEPLOYMENT
HOW TO GET STARTED
BUILT-IN CLOUD AWS STORAGE AWS AWS
CONNECTORS GATEWAY BACKUP MARKETPLACE
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Take a look at Try AWS Storage Sign in to your AWS Explore the AWS
your incumbent Gateway for free account, launch Marketplace for
capabilities. There to extend your the AWS Backup familiar and new
may be built-in cloud on-premises console, create a backup providers. Find
connectors that can environment to the backup plan, and a solution provider who
be enabled to start AWS Cloud. The assign AWS resources can best accommodate
sending backups to service is easy to use - EBS volumes, RDS your needs and begin
the AWS Cloud for and can be deployed databases, DynamoDB backing up to the AWS
durable and secure in a few steps. tables, EFS file Cloud today!
storage. systems, and AWS
Storage Gateway
volumes.
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