A company wants to automate and centrally manage backups for multiple AWS services — including Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon EFS — based on policies. Which AWS service is MOST suitable for this requirement?
A question asking to identify the service that centrally manages backups across multiple services.
Amazon EBS snapshots
This is incorrect. Amazon EBS snapshots are a feature that creates a backup of a single EBS volume.
The scope is limited to EBS and does not provide a mechanism to centrally manage backups across multiple services such as Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon EFS using policies.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
This is incorrect. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is a DR service that continuously replicates servers and enables fast failover recovery in the event of a disaster.
Its purpose is operational recovery (DR), not the policy-based periodic collection and centralized management of backups across multiple services, which is the role of AWS Backup.
Amazon S3 Glacier
This is incorrect. Amazon S3 Glacier is a low-cost storage class for archiving.
While it serves as a storage destination, it does not provide a mechanism to centrally manage backups across multiple services using policies.
AWS Backup
This is correct. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that automates and centrally manages backups for multiple AWS services based on policies (backup plans). Schedules, retention periods, and monitoring can all be governed from a single place, and it also supports on-premises environments via Storage Gateway.
'Backups across multiple services' and 'centrally managed with policies' both point to AWS Backup. Instead of manually managing individual snapshots, AWS Backup provides cross-service governance from a single location.