Automated Backup and Restore Solution

How It Works

• Create Backup plans to define the schedule, retention policy and targets (protected resources).
• Targets are selected using tag based approach. Each backup plan has its distinct associated tag. To backup a resource, we simply add a tag to that resource corresponding to the backup plan of choice.
• AWS Backup performs the backup activities according to the schedule defined in the backup plan.
• When the Backup job completes, an event triggers a Lambda function which starts a restore job and subsequently creates a test resource from the backup.
• When the Restore job completes, an event triggers a Lambda function which cleans up the test resource.
• When the Backup or Restore job fails, an event triggers a Lambda function which sends a notification to a slack channel.

Name	Description	Schedule	Retention	Resource	Backup Tags	Restore Tags
daily-ec2	Generic backup plan for EC2 instances	Daily at 10 PM	7 days	EC2 instance	backup-schedule=daily-ec2	restore=enabled
daily-rds	Generic backup plan for RDS Aurora clusters	Daily at 12 AM	Production: 30 days, NonProd: 7 days	Aurora cluster	backup-schedule=daily-rds	restore=enabled
daily-s3	Generic backup plan for S3 buckets	Daily at 1 AM	30 days	S3 bucket	backup-schedule=daily-s3	restore=enabled