An enterprise requires centralized backup management across 50 AWS accounts. Backups for EC2, RDS, and EFS must be taken daily, retained for 30 days, and copied to a central archive account in a different region. How should this be implemented?

Answer options:

A.

Write a Lambda function in each account to trigger snapshots and copy them via EventBridge.

B.

Use AWS Backup with AWS Organizations. Create a central backup policy and configure cross-account, cross-region copy to a vault in the archive account.

C.

Use Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to manage snapshots and copy them to the archive account.

D.

Use AWS Storage Gateway to replicate backups to the archive account.

How to approach this question

Identify the centralized backup service that supports multiple resource types.

Full Answer

B.Use AWS Backup with AWS Organizations. Create a central backup policy and configure cross-account, cross-region copy to a vault in the archive account.✓ Correct

AWS Backup provides a centralized console to manage and automate backups across AWS services and accounts using AWS Organizations.

Common mistakes

Choosing DLM, which does not support RDS or EFS.

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