{"id":2863,"date":"2019-08-30T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/tutorial\/?page_id=2863"},"modified":"2020-05-01T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T10:30:07","slug":"ec2-backup-strategies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/aws-certified-developer-associate\/ec2-backup-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"EC2 Backup Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many backup and recovery tools provided from AWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>EC2 does not backup data by default.<\/li><li>Automating the process to run at regular, predetermined intervals is essential.<\/li><li>Many strategies available, decide amongst\n<ul>\n<li>Snapshots Vs. AMI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In-House Scripting Vs. Third-Party EC2 Backup Solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EBS Snapshots<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Create snapshots if EC2 instances are stored via EBS.<\/li><li>method use Amazon S3, which is natively API-based<\/li><li>Snapshots are backups of Amazon EBS volumes redundantly stored by Amazon S3.<\/li><li>At first, an exact copy of volume is created.<\/li><li>Subsequent snapshots will only capture incremental block-level changes of original.<\/li><li>Hence, quick, efficient means for backing up and restoring data.<\/li><li>Snapshot copies can be copied to other AWS region, for disaster recovery.<\/li><li>Extra copy in another region, can prevent complete data loss during a failure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amazon Machine Image (AMI)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AMI provides information required to launch an EC2 instance.<\/li><li>Specify an AMI during launching an instance<\/li><li>Launch as many instances from AMI per requirement<\/li><li>method use Amazon S3, which is natively API-based<\/li><li>AMI is an encrypted machine image<\/li><li>Contains all information necessary to restore data,<\/li><li>Also has a template for root volume for instance<\/li><li>Template has details on\n<ul>\n<li>the operating system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>application server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>launch permissions, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>instance store-based AMIs against EBS, are\n<ul>\n<li>slower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>less flexible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>more costly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In-House Scripting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>User can leverage existing scripts being used in organization<\/li><li>AWS provides option to process and automate backup process using their in-house scripting.<\/li><li>Helps in automating the backup process.<\/li><li>can also prove to be expensive and time-consuming<\/li><li>can become a laborious and time-consuming process if scaling up data.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third-Party EC2 Backup Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>provide centralized backup management system<\/li><li>easily implement and manage EC2 backup<\/li><li>Can schedule backups, manage retention and recover data<\/li><li>Can also easily scale with data<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-194.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3833\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many backup and recovery tools provided from AWS EC2 does not backup data by default. 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