AWS adds backup

Big news and it confirms again that AWS is a rolling ball almost impossible to stop, addressing IT challenges with or without any consideration of the competition in place.

The new service is Backup. I was surprised at AWS Re:invent last November to see Backup in the product list and nothing on the floor.

AWS Backup is defined as a fully-managed, automatic centralized backup service to protect cloud and on-premises data whatever they are storage volumes, files, file systems or databases ie. integration with Amazon EBS, EFS, RDS, DynamoDB and the Storage Gateway. Next release will add more AWS services in the data protection landscape.

It's also a good recognition for AWS that these services require protection. AWS S3 is not listed as the durability is super high around 12 or even 9s and it is used as backup target by AWS Backup.

But more interestingly, it creates a new advantage for AWS versus other vendors applications on the marketplace with the integration of the service with their other services, I mean AWS Backup to protect AWS EFS or DynamoDB.

It will be funny to see a lambda file storage product running on AWS to use AWS Backup to product its own data. As the service can protect also on-premises data we anticipate some frictions and difficulties for some classic backup vendors. And what about Cloud-to-Cloud backup, it will arrive soon for sure. Clever addition from Amazon. Amazon continues to swallow all classic IT environments and the resistance is a lost battle.