Welcome to the AWS Backup Primer course! This course introduces you to the concepts and technologies within AWS Backup, so that you can quickly begin using AWS Backup in your environment. This course discusses the features, benefits, use cases, and key elements of AWS Backup, with a focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) service integrations. You then examine pricing and pricing options per AWS service. Finally, you learn how to monitor and audit your AWS Backup implementation using AWS Backup Audit Manager.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 70 minutes

Activities

This course includes interactive lessons, demonstrations, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Identify the advantages of using AWS Backup over service-native data protection options.
• Summarize how each of the AWS Compute, Storage, and Database services integrates with AWS Backup.
• Use AWS Backup plans and vaults within a given AWS environment.
• Indicate how AWS Backup coordinates backup activities within and between accounts.
• Use AWS Backup Audit Manager to audit and report on the compliance status of your data protection policies.
• Identify optimal use cases for AWS Backup.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects
• Storage administrators
• Application developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have reviewed:

• AWS Backup Introduction Video
• General AWS knowledge such as Cloud Practitioner Essentials
• Getting Started with AWS Storage

Course outline

Section 1: AWS Backup Overview

• Lesson 1: AWS Backup Introduction
• Lesson 2: Protecting Data in the Cloud

• Questions to Ask
• AWS data protection offerings
• Understand your usage
• Planning backup granularity
• Why backup and restore in the cloud?

• Lesson 3: AWS Backup Supported Services

• Compute services
• Storage services
• Database services
• Hybrid cloud
• Pricing
• Introducing AWS Backup

• Lesson 4: AnyCompany-Health Use Case

• Who is AnyCompany-Health?
• Automated backup management
• Centralized cross-account management
• Unified IAM policy control
• Regulatory compliance
• Moving forward

Section 2: How to Use AWS Backup

• Lesson 1: Configuration Introduction
• Lesson 2: AWS Backup Setup

• Backup plan
• Define backup rules
• Assign resources

• Lesson 3: Demo: Create a Backup Plan

• Demonstration

Section 3: AWS Security and Compliance

• Lesson 1: AWS Security and Compliance Introduction
• Lesson 2: AWS Backup Security

• What is a backup vault?
• Creating backup vaults
• AWS Backup use cases
• Encryption and IAM roles with AWS Backup
• Encryption
• AWS Backup Vault Lock
• AWS Backup Vault Lock use cases
• AWS Backup and AWS Organizations

• Lesson 3: AWS Backup Monitoring

• CloudWatch metrics
• Amazon SNS
• What is Amazon EventBridge?
• AWS Backup and EventBridge integration

• Lesson 4: AWS Backup Compliance

• AWS Backup Audit Manager
• Introducing AWS Backup Audit Manager
• Controls
• AWS Audit Manager reporting

Section 4: Customer Use Cases

• Lesson 1: Use Case Introduction
• Lesson 2: AWS Backup Customer Use Cases

• AWS Backup and cloud-centered protection

• Use case: Rackspace

• AWS Backup and disaster recovery

• Use case: ZS

• AWS Backup and compliance

• Use case: Santos

• AWS Backup and ransomware mitigation