Amazon Backup feature availability
Amazon Backup features are offered according to resource and Amazon Web Services Region. The following sections and tables can help you determine feature availability.
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Features available for all supported resources
Amazon Backup offers the following features for its supported Amazon services, as well as for supported third-party applications. Support for a feature or service should not be assumed unless explicitly mentioned.
Feature availability by resource
To use Amazon Backup with a supported Amazon service in a particular Region, the service must be available in the Region. To determine service availability in a Region, view the service endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.
For information on opt-in Regions and what resources and features are supported within, see Feature availability by Amazon Web Services Region.
| Amazon Backup supports | Cross-Region backup | Cross-account backup | Amazon Backup Audit Manager | Incremental backup | Continuous backup and point-in-time restore | Full management | Lifecycle to cold storage | Item-level restore 1 | Restore testing | Logically air-gapped vault |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon EC2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Amazon S3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Amazon EBS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Amazon RDS single instance | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 | ✓ 4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Amazon RDS cluster | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 | ✓ 4 | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Amazon Aurora | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 | ✓ | ✓ 6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Amazon EFS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FSx for Lustre | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| FSx for Windows File Server | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓8 | |||||
| FSx for ONTAP | ✓ 2 | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| FSx for OpenZFS7 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Amazon Storage Gateway | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Amazon DocumentDB | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Amazon Neptune | ✓ 3 | ✓ 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ 9 | |||||
| Amazon Redshift | ✓ | |||||||||
| Timestream | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Windows VSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Virtual machines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Amazon CloudFormation templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ 5 | ✓ | ✓ 5 | ✓ | ||||
| Amazon DynamoDB | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| DynamoDB with Amazon Backup advanced features | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 instances | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Some resource types have both continuous backup capability and cross-Region and cross-account copy available. When a cross-Region or cross-account copy of a continuous backup is made, the copied recovery point (backup) becomes a snapshot (periodic) backup. PITR (Point-in-Time Restore) is not available for these copies.
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Amazon RDS and Amazon S3 support cross-account and cross-Region copy from incremental backups.
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Amazon Aurora and SAP HANA on Amazon EC2 instances support only cross-account and cross-Region copy from full backups.
1 The "item" in an item-level restore varies depending on the supported resource. For example, a file system item is a file or directory, whereas an S3 item is an S3 object. A VMware item is a disk. For more information, see the Restore a backup by resource type section for the supported resource.
2 Amazon Backup Audit Manager supports this resource across all controls except cross-account copy and cross-Region copy.
3 RDS, Aurora, DocumentDB, and Neptune do not support a single copy action that performs both cross-Region AND cross-account backup. You can choose one or the other. You can also use a Amazon Lambda script to listen for the completion of your first copy, perform your second copy, then delete the first copy. RDS multi availability zone (Multi-AZ) database instances can be copied, but Multi-AZ clusters do not currently support cross-Region or cross-account copy. See Cross-Region copy considerations with specific resources for further information.
4 See RDS multi-availability zone backups for Regions where Backup Audit Manager support is available.
5 In CloudFormation stack backups, nested resources retain their source resources' features. However, resources within the stack do not retain Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) functionality (such as Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS). Properties within the matrix above apply just to CloudFormation templates and not to the resources within the stack.
6 For Aurora, snapshots are full, and incremental backup is offered through PITR.
7 Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Multi-AZ (multi-availability zone) file
systems can only be restored from the Amazon FSx console or the API request createFileSystemFromBackup.
8 Is supported in a restore test if FSx for Windows File Server uses Amazon managed active directory
9 Is not currently available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Feature availability by Amazon Web Services Region
Amazon Backup is available in all the following Amazon Web Services Regions. Amazon Backup features are available in all these Regions unless otherwise noted in the following table.
Some Regions require account opt-in, as noted in the following table. Some feature availability is determined by whether opt-in is required or not required. For more information, see Amazon Web Services Regions your account can use in the Amazon Account Management Reference Guide.
Considerations for opt-in Regions:
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Cross-account cross-Region copy is not supported for Amazon DocumentDB in Regions where opt-in is required.
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Cross-Region copy of Neptune backups is currently supported in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE) Regions.
Cross-Region copy of FSx for Lustre, FSx for Windows File Server, FSx for ONTAP, and FSx for OpenZFS is not supported in Regions where opt-in is required.
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Cross-account copy is not supported for CloudFormation, Neptune, and Timestream in Regions where opt-in is required.
Considerations and limitations for cross-account management in opt-in Regions:
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Cross-account management in Amazon Web Services Regions where opt-in is required includes cross-account monitoring and access to backup policies; delegated administrator accounts can launch policies but do not have access to the monitoring functions.
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Both management accounts and their child accounts can be opted into Amazon Organizations. If a child account is opted into cross-account management prior to its management account being opted into cross-account management, there will be a delay (up to 24 hours) before cross-account monitoring will show job statuses across the organization.
| Amazon Backup supports | Opt-in | Cross-Region backup copy | Cross-account management | Cross-account backup copy | Amazon Backup Audit Manager and Jobs dashboard | Restore testing |
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| US East (N. Virginia) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| US East (Ohio) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| US West (N. California) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| US West (Oregon) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Africa (Cape Town) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Asia Pacific (Jakarta) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Asia Pacific (Malaysia) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Asia Pacific (Melbourne) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Osaka) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Canada (Central) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Canada West (Calgary) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| China (Beijing) | Amazon in China |
✓2 | ||||
| China (Ningxia) | Amazon in China |
✓2 | ||||
| Europe (Frankfurt) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Europe (Ireland) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Europe (London) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Europe (Milan) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Europe (Paris) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Europe (Spain) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Europe (Stockholm) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Europe (Zurich) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Israel (Tel Aviv) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Middle East (Bahrain) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Middle East (UAE) | Required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| South America (São Paulo) | Not required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Amazon GovCloud (US-East) | Amazon GovCloud (US) |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓3 | |
| Amazon GovCloud (US-West) | Amazon GovCloud (US) |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓3 |
1Cross-Region and cross-account copy to a logically air-gapped vault is not currently available in Canada West (Calgary), China (Beijing), China (Ningxia), Amazon GovCloud (US-East), or Amazon GovCloud (US-West) Regions.
2China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) support cross-Region copy from one of these two Regions to the other. Cross-Region copy is not supported from these Regions to other Regions or into these Regions. Cross-account copy is not supported for these Regions.
3Jobs dashboard is not available in Amazon GovCloud (US-East) and Amazon GovCloud (US-West). Jobs dashboard aggregation is only available in Regions which support cross-account management and Amazon Backup Audit Manager.
Supported services by Amazon Web Services Region
Amazon Backup is available for these resource types in all Regions in which Amazon Backup current operates:
Aurora
Amazon CloudFormation
Amazon DocumentDB
DynamoDB
DynamoDB with Amazon Backup advanced features
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Amazon EFS
Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS
Amazon Backup support of Amazon Neptune is available in most commercial Regions where Neptune is supported. Backup and restore is not currently available in Europe (Spain) Region.
The following table indicates Amazon Backup support for other Amazon Web Services services by Region:
| Region and service | Amazon FSx | SAP HANA on EC2 instances | Amazon S3 | Storage Gateway | Amazon Timestream | VMware and Backup gateway |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| US East (Ohio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| US West (N. California) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| US West (Oregon) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Africa (Cape Town) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Asia Pacific (Jakarta) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Asia Pacific (Malaysia) | ✓ | |||||
| Asia Pacific (Melbourne) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Osaka) | Windows; Lustre | ✓ | ✓ 1 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Canada (Central) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Canada West (Calgary) | ✓ | |||||
| China (Beijing) | Windows; Lustre | ✓ 1 | ✓ | |||
| China (Ningxia) | Windows; Lustre | ✓ 1 | ✓ | |||
| Europe (Frankfurt) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Europe (Ireland) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Europe (London) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Europe (Milan) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Europe (Paris) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Europe (Spain) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Europe (Stockholm) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Europe (Zurich) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Israel (Tel Aviv) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Middle East (Bahrain) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Middle East (UAE) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| South America (São Paulo) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Amazon GovCloud (US-West) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Amazon GovCloud (US-East) | Windows; Lustre; ONTAP | ✓ 1 | ✓ | ✓ |
A check under Amazon FSx indicates that FSx for Windows File Server, FSx for Lustre, FSx for ONTAP, and FSx for OpenZFS are all supported in that Region by Amazon Backup; otherwise, the supported configurations will be listed.
1 Cross-Region and cross-account copy are not supported.