Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage provides you with the services you need to build the storage solution that’s right for your organization. Backup and disaster recovery services provide you those additional tools to develop your complete storage solutions. You will discover backup and service-native snapshot services to meet your organization’s backup requirements. You also discover an AWS service that can replicate your on-premises application servers for disaster recovery protection. In addition, you will learn about service-native replication you can use to protect your data or enhance service availability across AWS Regions. You can select from these different service offerings and apply them to your organization’s needs to discover the best storage solution.

Before choosing an AWS storage solution, we recommend you first assess what storage characteristics are appropriate for your applications and business. After familiarizing yourself with AWS storage, you can then compare your requirements to the available services and select the solution that meets your needs. This course introduces customers to the benefits, features, use cases, and considerations for storage data protection services. These include AWS Backup and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. In addition, you are introduced to other storage protection services that are native features included with the core block, file, and object services. These include snapshots and replication features.