DynamoDB Backup and Restore provides fully automated on-demand backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery for data protection and archiving.
On-demand backup allows the creation of full backups of DynamoDB table for data archiving, helping you meet corporate and governmental regulatory requirements.
Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. When enabled, DynamoDB maintains incremental backups of your table for the last 35 days until you explicitly turn it off.
On-demand Backups
DynamoDB on-demand backup helps create full backups of the tables for long-term retention, and archiving for regulatory compliance needs.
Backup and restore actions run with no impact on table performance or availability.
Backups are preserved regardless of table deletion and retained until they are explicitly deleted.
On-demand backups are cataloged, and discoverable.
On-demand backups can be created using
DynamoDB
can be used to backup and restore DynamoDB tables.
DynamoDB on-demand backups cannot be copied to a different account or Region.
is a fully managed data protection service that makes it easy to centralize and automate backups across AWS services, in the cloud, and on-premises
provides enhanced backup features
can configure backup schedules & policies and monitor activity for the AWS resources and on-premises workloads in one place.
can copy the on-demand backups across AWS accounts and Regions,
encryption using an AWS KMS key that is independent of the DynamoDB table encryption key.
apply write-once-read-many (WORM) setting for the backups using the AWS Backup Vault Lock policy.
add cost allocation tags to on-demand backups, and
transition on-demand backups to cold storage for lower costs.
PITR – Point-In-Time Recovery
DynamoDB point-in-time recovery – PITR enables automatic, continuous, incremental backup of the table with per-second granularity.
PITR-enabled tables that were deleted can be recovered in the preceding 35 days and restored to their state just before they were deleted.
PITR helps protect against accidental writes and deletes.
PITR can back up tables with hundreds of terabytes of data with no impact on the performance or availability of the production applications.
AWS Certification Exam Practice Questions
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A sysops engineer must create nightly backups of an Amazon DynamoDB table. Which backup methodology should the database specialist use to MINIMIZE management overhead?
Install the AWS CLI on an Amazon EC2 instance. Write a CLI command that creates a backup of the DynamoDB table. Create a scheduled job or task that runs the command on a nightly basis.
Create an AWS Lambda function that creates a backup of the DynamoDB table. Create an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule
that runs the Lambda function on a nightly basis.
Create a backup plan using AWS Backup, specify a backup frequency of every 24 hours, and give the plan a nightly backup window.
Configure DynamoDB backup and restore for an on-demand backup frequency of every 24 hours.