1. Assessment Phase

  • AWS Backup Best Practices Assessment Execution
20 Credits

AWS Backup Best Practices Report

Overview

This report assesses AWS resources against 13 enabled configuration checks across the areas below. It identifies passed and failed checks, unavailable evidence, and affected resources so you can prioritize configuration changes and investigate operational gaps.

Backup Plans

  • Backup Plans Minimum Retention Configured (35 days)
  • Backup Plans Include Lifecycle Policies
  • Backup plan should exist in a region

Backup Recovery Points

  • Backup Recovery Points Do Not Expire Before Retention Period

Backup Replication

  • Backup Cross-Account Replication

Backup Report Plans

  • Backup report plan should exist in a region where backup plan is enabled

Backup Vaults

  • Backup vaults should exist in a region

RDS Snapshots

  • RDS DB clusters and instances should be configured to copy tags to snapshots

RDS DB Instances

  • RDS DB instances backup retention period should be greater than or equal to 7

RDS DB Clusters

  • RDS DB clusters should have enough backup retention period set

Kinesis Data Streams

  • Kinesis Stream Backup Retention Check

Organizations Backup Policies

  • AWS Organizations Backup Policies Configured

Data Lifecycle Manager Policies

  • DLM EBS snapshot lifecycle policy should be enabled

The report includes actionable findings and remediation guidance for supported checks.