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Boost Your AWS Backup in 5 Minutes: Automate EBS Snapshots with CloudWatch
- AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage for Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, enabling running containerized applications, big data analytics, and many other use cases.
- EBS's ability to capture snapshots of your volumes provides data protection against potential data loss.
- AWS offers incremental snapshots allowing you to only capture the data that has changed since the initial backup, reducing redundant data duplication.
- Automating your EBS snapshots enables efficient data backup and saves you time and effort through services such as the Lifecycle Manager EBS service and AWS Backup.
- Sharing your EBS volume snapshots across regions allows you to expand your operations across the globe, and distribute snapshots among multiple accounts.
- EBS automation can be challenging due to scalability, a dynamic environment, and ensuring automated backups' reliability.
- AWS CloudWatch Events enable scheduled snapshots generation through rule creation, validation, and snapshot verification and disabling the rule to prevent additional snapshots.
- CloudWatch Events automation approach allows you to programmatically automate snapshots using Lambda functions.
- Automating your snapshots enables safe and efficient data backup, saving you time and effort.
- To maximize the benefits of AWS, you need to be aware of the challenges associated with EBS automation concerned about scalability, a dynamic environment, and automated backup reliability.
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