Question

A SysOps administrator manages a production application that stores data in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ instance and several Amazon EBS volumes in the us-east-1 Region. The compliance team requires that all backups be retained for 90 days and that a copy of every backup exist in the us-west-2 Region to meet disaster recovery objectives. The solution must be centrally managed and automated with minimal operational overhead. Which approach BEST meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Create an AWS Backup plan with a backup rule that assigns a 90-day retention period and configure a copy action in the rule to replicate recovery points to a backup vault in us-west-2.

Answer

Enable automated RDS snapshots and EBS Data Lifecycle Manager policies in us-east-1, then write a Lambda function scheduled with EventBridge to copy each snapshot to us-west-2.

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Configure an AWS Backup plan in us-east-1 with 90-day retention, then manually copy the latest recovery points to us-west-2 each month using the AWS CLI.

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Turn on cross-Region read replicas for the RDS instance and enable EBS multi-attach so the volumes are available in us-west-2 for recovery.