Reduce AWS Backup costs with these tips
AWS Backup cost saving tips
Optimize your AWS Backup costs with these tips
Use Data Life Cycles
Using an efficient tagging strategy, you can make sure you only backup what you need. You can make sure that backup retention is automatically set using Data Life Cycles. I suggest creating two backup plans one for UAT environments and one for production environments, with different retention settings.
Consider Service Costs
Some services have cheaper backup costs than others. For instance, backing up an Aurora Cluster is four times cheaper than backing up a RDS Database. This might mean that you need to switch services to get better backup costs. Factor both the storage and the restore price into your calculations.
Cross Region Transfer
If you transfer your backups across AWS regions (which you should do!) you might be confronted with cross region transfer costs (currently about $0.02/GB). Depending on your backup retention needs you might need to reduce the number of times you transfer to the other region.
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About AWS Backup
- About AWS Backup
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AWS Backup is a fully managed, policy-based service that simplifies data protection. It allows users to create immutable backups, monitor and ensure data protection compliance with auditor-ready reports. AWS Backup can be used for cloud-native backup, hybrid data protection, centralized data protection policies, and data protection compliance.
- AWS Backup pricing
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AWS Backup costs include storage, data transfers, restorations, evaluations, and are based on monthly storage (GB-Month). No set up or minimum fees. Prices differ per product. Cold storage specifically supports backups for minimum 90 days, billed per GB-day. AWS Backup can quickly get expensive at scale.