Question

A financial services company runs a fleet of EC2 instances with attached EBS volumes storing transactional data. Compliance requires an RPO of 1 hour and that recovery point snapshots be automatically created, retained for 30 days, and copied to a second region for disaster recovery. The DevOps team wants a fully managed, policy-driven solution that requires no custom Lambda code or cron servers to maintain. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Create an Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) snapshot lifecycle policy targeting the volumes by tag, with a 1-hour schedule, 30-day retention, and cross-region copy enabled to the DR region.

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Write an AWS Lambda function triggered by an EventBridge scheduled rule every hour to call CreateSnapshot and CopySnapshot, and a second function to prune snapshots older than 30 days.

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Enable EBS fast snapshot restore on all volumes and rely on it to maintain hourly recovery points that are automatically replicated to the DR region.

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Configure AWS Backup with a daily backup plan and a lifecycle rule that transitions snapshots to cold storage after 1 hour and copies them cross-region.