Layering backup strategies for reliable resilience

The integrity and accessibility of data are absolutely paramount for business continuity in the cloud. Disruptions, ranging from inadvertent deletions and hardware failures to targeted cyberattacks, can render vital data unavailable, leading to operational roadblocks and even financial losses. To ensure resilience in AWS, it’s essential to meticulously plan and implement a multi-pronged backup and recovery strategy. Such a strategy ensures that in the face of any incident, data can be restored promptly, allowing operations to resume with minimal disruption.

Here are the common backup strategies generally followed in the industry:

• Full backups: This most comprehensive backup type creates a complete replica of your entire dataset at a specific point in time. Full backups offer a surefire way to recover all data in case of major disasters or extensive data corruption. However, they can be time-consuming and storage-intensive...