Each region is able to run even if other regions are not available. More security with geo-replicationĪmazon has designed their services to be resilient to disruptions. I retain the last 30 days and delete everything older than that. Automatically change the storage class on the weekly backup to Glacier.Keep one backup every week for one year.Backup the web files every day - this could be handled by s3cmd and cron.This makes it easy to set up something similar to You can also add rules to delete files automatically and much more. The rest of the settings you can leave to the default settings. You need to write a globally unique name as the bucket name. A bucket can be created using your Amazon Console. In S3 you work with a “bucket” which is a name you create to reference the place where the data is stored. S3 is designed with a REST API for interfacing so you can even build your own tools to interface with it. Most essential for me is the Linux console utility s3cmd it allows me to upload any file or directory from a Linux machine to S3. You can interface with S3 in many ways they are described here. It is a well-designed storage solution that is scalable for many use cases.

Essentially it should be enough for anyone, and even Netflix uses S3 for their storage needs. S3 allows you to store an infinite amount of data.

In this article, I dive into what you need to know about Amazon S3 before you start using it for your backup solution.

It is designed never to lose data and to be resilient to disasters. Especially since a backup is easy to set up and cheap.Īmazon S3 is my go-to solution for cloud data storage. After all, I do spend an awful lot of time creating data it would hurt a lot if it were lost by accident. Real men do not take backups, but they cry a lotīut I rather not cry too much :-) I try to have a good backup solution.

Amazon s3 for personal backup