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What is AWS Backup and how does it simplify managing backups across multiple AWS services?

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Answer

AWS Backup is a fully managed service that lets you centralize and automate data protection across many AWS services, such as EC2, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, and EFS, from a single console, letting you define a backup policy once and apply it consistently across all your resources instead of configuring backups separately for each individual service.
aws backup create-backup-plan --backup-plan file://backup-plan.json
Real-world example A company with resources spread across EC2, RDS, and DynamoDB uses a single AWS Backup plan to enforce a consistent daily backup schedule and retention policy across all three services, rather than managing three separate backup processes.

Common follow-ups: What AWS services does AWS Backup support?;How does AWS Backup pricing work compared to native snapshot pricing?

RDS & Databases;Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)
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