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AWS EC2 stands for Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud. It is one of the most popular services offered by AWS. An EC2 instance is simply a virtual server that organizations can request and provision in the Amazon public cloud. It offers on-demand, scalable computing capacity, and eliminates the need for any upfront investment in hardware and related maintenance duties. Organizations can launch as many AWS EC2 virtual servers as they need and can scale up or down when there is an increase or decrease in traffic.
There are five ways to back up an AWS EC2 instance, or virtual server, on the Amazon public cloud:
Backing up AWS EC2 data regularly is critical for any organization or government agency that values business continuity. Backups should be implemented properly and reviewed often, so that if a disaster occurs, the business can minimize downtime with a reliable and tested solution.
Backups also allow teams to rapidly restore applications and data that has been deleted or otherwise corrupted. Additionally, backups are crucial for recovering from a ransomware attack or other cyber threat incident.
Other benefits of backing up AWS EC2 data include:
AWS snapshots and backups are two terms often used interchangeably, but they represent two different ways of protecting data in the Amazon public cloud.
An AWS snapshot is a copy of an Amazon EBS volume for an EC2 instance taken at a specific point in time. This can become very costly, and limits storage and recovery options.
An AWS EC2 Backup is a more comprehensive and flexible copy of a cloud workload, offering reliable protection and ensuring fast and consistent recovery.
While snapshots and backups each have advantages, teams are typically advised to go with backups for longer-term protection of enterprise data.
Understanding the difference between AWS snapshots and true backups as well as using a leading third-party backup solution for cloud workloads can help organizations significantly save on backup capacity costs while improving data security and reliability.
In today’s data-driven world, many enterprises adopt a hybrid cloud strategy for flexibility to manage a wide variety of applications and data distributed across on-premises and public cloud environments. This commonly includes on-prem workloads and applications such as virtual machines (VMs), network attached storage (NAS), and databases—as well as many cloud workloads, like AWS EC2.
For protecting these physical, virtual, and cloud-based applications, enterprises often use multiple backup and disaster recovery point products. This approach has many challenges, including requiring specialized IT resources familiar with these siloed products. Disjointed offerings are also time-consuming and complex to manage, and can be expensive.
Cohesity provides a number of options for protecting AWS EC2 workloads to overcome these challenges and simplify backup and recovery for hybrid environments: