Document history

Updated information

Updated guidance in the Amazon S3 section.

June 28, 2024

Updated information

Updated information in the On-premises DR to AWS section.

April 13, 2023

Added a section

Added guidance and steps for creating or restoring an instance from a snapshot.

March 7, 2023

Added information about Elastic Disaster Recovery and added clarification

In the Disaster recovery with AWS and Choosing AWS services for data protection sections, added information about AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. In the Amazon EC2 backup and recovery with snapshots and AMIs, Preparing an EBS volume before creating a snapshot or AMI, and Restoring from an Amazon EBS snapshot or an AMI sections, added clarification. Added to the Backup and recovery FAQ.

January 19, 2023

Added a link

Added a link to the Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager documentation in the Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager section.

October 31, 2022

Updated information

Updated the information about restoring volumes.

August 30, 2022

Updated information and added new section

In the Choosing AWS services for data protection section, added services. Added the section Backup and recovery using AWS Backup. In the Backup and recovery using Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier section, added information about new Amazon Glacier storage classes. In the Backup and recovery for Amazon EC2 with EBS volumes section, added links to documentation and additional information. In the Backup and recovery of cloud-native AWS services section, added a recommendation to use AWS Backup. In the Additional resources section, added resources.

January 28, 2022

Updated information

Added information about setting storage classes to the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval section. Added information about retrieving snapshots to the Amazon EC2 backup and recovery with snapshots and AMIs section.

September 9, 2021

Updated information

In the AWS Backup section, added information about the AWS services that AWS Backup supports.

June 1, 2021

Initial publication

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July 29, 2020