AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate
AWS Backup and Snapshots
How EBS snapshots actually store data incrementally, when to automate them with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager versus AWS Backup, and how backup plans, vaults, cross-Region and cross-account copies, and Vault Lock combine into a policy you can prove.
Intermediate 26 minutes 6 Learning Objectives
- Explain how EBS snapshots store data incrementally and predict what deleting one snapshot actually frees
- Distinguish a crash-consistent snapshot from an application-consistent one and know when the difference matters
- Choose between Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager and AWS Backup for a given automation requirement
- Build an AWS Backup plan with lifecycle rules, cross-Region copy, and cross-account copy, and explain what each protects against
- Compare Vault Lock governance mode with compliance mode and state what becomes irreversible after the grace period
- Describe how restore testing validates an RTO instead of assuming it