Backup and Recovery

Each hosting application receives a custom backup plan meticulously configured for its exact resource inventory—from RDS databases and Lightsail instances to EBS volumes, DynamoDB tables, and S3 buckets. Comprehensive AWS Backup strategies combined with native service snapshots deliver automated daily protection, 15-minute database granularity, rapid point-in-time recovery, and business continuity precisely tailored to each deployment's architecture, data volume, and operational requirements.

Backups prove meaningless without validated recovery. Equal engineering investment goes into battle-tested recovery processes that successfully restore full application stacks during ransomware attacks, hardware failures, human errors, or regional outages. This dual-focus approach ensures every hosting application maintains not just available backups, but demonstrated ability to return to production within defined RTO/RPO targets—quarterly disaster recovery drills confirm end-to-end restoration works under real emergency conditions.

AWS Backup: Centralized, Resource-Specific Protection

AWS Backup manages backups across 30+ AWS services (EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, EC2, S3, Lightsail) through custom policies designed for each hosting application's architecture. Recovery receives equal engineering as backup creation.

Custom capabilities per application:

• Tailored Policies: Individual plans back up only the specific RDS clusters, EBS volumes, Lightsail instances, DynamoDB tables, and S3 buckets used by each hosting application.
• Database Protection: Separate databases get automated 15-minute backups via RDS transaction logs and Aurora continuous capture. Point-in-time recovery to any second within 35 days.
• Lightsail Coverage: Daily snapshots customized for each Lightsail instance type—WordPress sites snapshot databases + static files, Node.js apps capture code + dependencies, LAMP stacks preserve complete stacks.
• Smart Lifecycle: Retention and storage class tuned per application—hot access for active e-commerce vs. deep archive for static archives.

Each hosting application gets tagged policies enabling isolated backup management and recovery.

Automated Backup Schedules by Workload

Backup cadence configured to application requirements:

Critical Databases (15-minute RPO):

• RDS MySQL/PostgreSQL/Aurora: Continuous transaction logs
• Application-specific databases: Automated 15-minute snapshots
• DynamoDB tables: Continuous point-in-time recovery

Daily Application Backups:

• Lightsail instances/databases/static IPs: Tailored daily snapshots (00:00 UTC)
• Application EBS volumes: Application-consistent snapshots
• Application S3 buckets: Versioning + inventory
• Application EFS shares: Crash-consistent snapshots
• Application Lambda functions: Code + configuration

Weekly Compliance Copies: Cross-region replication customized per compliance needs.

Retention customized per application: 7-90 days hot, 1-3 years compliance, indefinite archive where required.

Disaster Recovery: Tested Recovery Processes

Recovery processes engineered and validated for each application:

• Pilot Light: Minimal DR footprint scales specifically for each application's capacity needs (<5 minutes failover via Route 53)
• Warm Standby: Application-sized standby capacity continuously available (<60 seconds cutover via ALB)
• Active/Active: Global applications use Global Accelerator + DynamoDB Global Tables (sub-minute RTO)

Mandatory Quarterly Recovery Drills: Fault Injection Simulator executes complete end-to-end recovery of each application, measuring actual RTO/RPO against targets. Documented runbooks stored in Systems Manager ensure any team member can execute emergency recovery.

Per-Application Recovery Objectives:

• RTO: 5-15 minutes tailored to business impact
• RPO: 0-15 minutes (databases), daily (filesystems)
• 100% quarterly test success per application

Advanced Protection Per Application

Custom safeguards match each hosting application's threat model:

• S3 Object Lock: Enabled selectively for high-value buckets (90+ day immutability)
• Vault Lock Policies: Application-specific delete protection windows
• EBS Fast Snapshot Restore: Pre-warmed for each application's critical EBS volumes
• Aurora Backtrack: Configured for databases needing sub-hour rewind capability

Backup Audit Manager generates per-application compliance reports tracking success rates, restore tests, encryption.

Precisely Configured for Hosting Applications

WordPress Hosting:

• Daily Lightsail snapshots + 15-minute MySQL backups (for addon databases)
• Media uploads to versioned S3 + Object Lock
• Complete theme/plugin/config recovery (tested quarterly)

Node.js/API Applications:

• 15-minute DynamoDB/RDS + daily EBS for code
• Lambda functions + API Gateway configs
• Cross-region DynamoDB Global Tables

Static + Database Hybrid:

• S3 full versioning + daily Lightsail database snapshots
• CDN config backup + Route 53 records
• EFS shared storage snapshots

Recovery-First Architecture

Each hosting application receives its dedicated backup and recovery plan configured precisely for its unique resources and requirements. 15-minute database protection eliminates meaningful data gaps across RDS, DynamoDB, and other databases. Daily snapshots cover all hosting instances—Lightsail, EC2, containers—ensuring complete environment recovery.

Custom plans eliminate over-provisioning, shared failure domains, and dependency risks while delivering complete recovery independence for every application.

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