Storage, Data Backup, Recovery & Retention

Written By Kemi Ibitayo

Students will learn how to implement backup processes that offer the appropriate level of granularity to meet the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). of a business. The focus will be on backup, recovery, and archive approaches for a cloud native infrastructure.

In addition students will study different data retention policies and learn how to implement archival processes to preserve data for compliance or corporate reasons.

Objectives

  • Foundational understanding of the different AWS Storage services that includes usage pattern, performance, durability & availability, scalability & elasticity, security and cost model.

  • Explore the AWS products that can be used to build out a. backup and recovery solution.

  • Create and manage data retention for different AWS services.

Topics

  • AWS S3

  • AWS Glazier

  • AWS EBS

  • AWS EFS

  • AWS Storage Gateway

  • AWS Snowball

Activities

Students will learn by practically implementing a storage, data backup, recovery & retention process for the the e-commerce platform.

  • implementing data retention policies with Amazon RDS snapshot export to Amazon S3

  • Creating EBS Snapshots

  • Restoring from an EBS Snapshot

  • Creating Consistent or Hot Backups

  • Performing Multivolume Backups

  • Database Backup Approaches

  • Using Database Replica Backups

  • Using Amazon RDS for Backups

  • Using AMI to Back Up EC2 Instances

  • In addition backup processes which are performed to keep a copy of the production data for a short duration to recover from data corruption or data loss.

Kemi Ibitayo
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