Previously, we have covered a few patterns that discuss how to back up using Amazon provided services, but those patterns assumed that all assets were in Amazon. In real-world situations, it is very rare that all of a team's assets are in a single store such as Amazon.

These transitional and hybrid data centre setups are quite common, but a lot of management headaches come with trying to secure backups on-site. A solution to this that helps to ease the transition and even to ease some backup issues such as continuity and redundancy, is to use a hybrid backup pattern.

This pattern will not be covered in-depth as it is impossible to cover all the edge cases for types of backups as well as ways to ship the data into AWS. One of the easiest ways to put backups into S3 is by using some of the previous patterns in which we copied data to S3, as that access is transparent. However, S3 is not the only solution. Amazon Glacier is a bit cheaper but is considered cold storage.

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