The v backup options offered by AWS
Before we start diving into AWS's various backup offerings, we first need to understand why we back up our data.
Why do we back up data?
One of the primary reasons we perform backups is to minimize data loss. Lost data will impact our business by impacting our brand, revenue, and trust in our customer relationships. So, the first thing we need to decide as an organization is how much data loss we can afford. Data loss can be defined in terms of a rcovery point objective (RPO). The RPO will dictate the backup frequency, which is the solution that we use to perform the backup, as it's the measurement of the maximum tolerable limit of our data loss. The other factor we need to consider is the recovery time objective (RTO), the amount of time it will take to recover, which is directly correlated to how much your business can afford to operate with that particular application offline or down.
Now the question is, why don't we back...