Amazon CloudFormation templates for backup plans

We provide two sample Amazon CloudFormation templates for your reference. The first template creates a simple backup plan. The second template enables VSS backups in a backup plan.

Description: backup plan template to back up all resources daily at 5am UTC, and tag all recovery points with backup:daily.

Resources:
  KMSKey:
    Type: AWS::KMS::Key
    Properties:
      Description: "Encryption key for daily"
      EnableKeyRotation: True
      Enabled: True
      KeyPolicy:
        Version: "2012-10-17"
        Statement:
          - Effect: Allow
            Principal:
              "AWS": { "Fn::Sub": "arn:${AWS::Partition}:iam::${AWS::AccountId}:root" }
            Action:
              - kms:*
            Resource: "*"

  BackupVaultWithDailyBackups:
    Type: "AWS::Backup::BackupVault"
    Properties:
      BackupVaultName: "BackupVaultWithDailyBackups"
      EncryptionKeyArn: !GetAtt KMSKey.Arn

  BackupPlanWithDailyBackups:
    Type: "AWS::Backup::BackupPlan"
    Properties:
      BackupPlan:
        BackupPlanName: "BackupPlanWithDailyBackups"
        BackupPlanRule:
          - RuleName: "RuleForDailyBackups"
            TargetBackupVault: !Ref BackupVaultWithDailyBackups
            ScheduleExpression: "cron(0 5 ? * * *)"
    DependsOn: BackupVaultWithDailyBackups
    
  DDBTableWithDailyBackupTag:
    Type: "AWS::DynamoDB::Table"
    Properties:
      TableName: "TestTable"
      AttributeDefinitions:
        - AttributeName: "Album"
          AttributeType: "S"
      KeySchema:
        - AttributeName: "Album"
          KeyType: "HASH"
      ProvisionedThroughput:
        ReadCapacityUnits: "5"
        WriteCapacityUnits: "5"
      Tags:
        - Key: "backup"
          Value: "daily"

  BackupRole:
    Type: "AWS::IAM::Role"
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
        Version: "2012-10-17"
        Statement:
          - Effect: "Allow"
            Principal:
              Service:
                - "backup.amazonaws.com"
            Action:
              - "sts:AssumeRole"
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/service-role"

  TagBasedBackupSelection:
    Type: "AWS::Backup::BackupSelection"
    Properties:
      BackupSelection:
        SelectionName: "TagBasedBackupSelection"
        IamRoleArn: !GetAtt BackupRole.Arn
        ListOfTags:
          - ConditionType: "STRINGEQUALS"
            ConditionKey: "backup"
            ConditionValue: "daily"
      BackupPlanId: !Ref BackupPlanWithDailyBackups
    DependsOn: BackupPlanWithDailyBackups

Description: backup plan template to enable Windows VSS and add backup rule to take backup of assigned resources daily at 5am UTC.

Resources:
  KMSKey:
    Type: AWS::KMS::Key
    Properties:
      Description: "Encryption key for daily"
      EnableKeyRotation: True
      Enabled: True
      KeyPolicy:
        Version: "2012-10-17"
        Statement:
          - Effect: Allow
            Principal:
              "AWS": { "Fn::Sub": "arn:${AWS::Partition}:iam::${AWS::AccountId}:root" }
            Action:
              - kms:*
            Resource: "*"

  BackupVaultWithDailyBackups:
    Type: "AWS::Backup::BackupVault"
    Properties:
      BackupVaultName: "BackupVaultWithDailyBackups"
      EncryptionKeyArn: !GetAtt KMSKey.Arn

  BackupPlanWithDailyBackups:
    Type: "AWS::Backup::BackupPlan"
    Properties:
      BackupPlan:
        BackupPlanName: "BackupPlanWithDailyBackups"
        AdvancedBackupSettings:
          - ResourceType: EC2
            BackupOptions:
              WindowsVSS: enabled
        BackupPlanRule:
          - RuleName: "RuleForDailyBackups"
            TargetBackupVault: !Ref BackupVaultWithDailyBackups
            ScheduleExpression: "cron(0 5 ? * * *)"

    DependsOn: BackupVaultWithDailyBackups