A company has a multi-account environment managed by AWS Organizations. They want to ensure that all Amazon EBS snapshots are automatically copied to a central disaster recovery account in a different region. What is the MOST operationally efficient way to implement this?

Answer options:

A.

Create an AWS Lambda function in each account triggered by CloudTrail to copy the snapshots.

B.

Use AWS Backup to create a backup policy at the Organization level that copies snapshots to a vault in the central DR account.

C.

Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to copy snapshots to the central account.

D.

Write a script using the AWS CLI and run it daily from an EC2 instance.

How to approach this question

Identify the central backup management service.

Full Answer

B.Use AWS Backup to create a backup policy at the Organization level that copies snapshots to a vault in the central DR account.✓ Correct

AWS Backup allows you to create centralized backup policies across an AWS Organization. You can configure these policies to automatically copy backups (like EBS snapshots) to a central vault in a different account and region.

Common mistakes

Relying on custom Lambda scripts when a managed service exists.

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