A freight carrier takes occasional manual EBS snapshots and has no backup plan for its RDS instances. Leadership wants tagged EBS volumes and RDS instances backed up on a schedule, with a recovery copy in a second Region. Which service should operations configure?
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Short Explanation
You can use AWS Backup to schedule backups for resources selected by tag and copy recovery points to a second Region. A CloudWatch dashboard can show disk usage, but it won’t give you a restorable copy.
Full Explanation
AWS Backup plans run on a schedule, select resources such as tagged EBS volumes and RDS instances, store recovery points in a vault, and can copy those points to another Region. This meets the request for scheduled, tag-based backups and a recovery copy in a second Region. A CloudWatch dashboard displays metrics such as disk usage; it does not create a restorable copy. VPC Flow Logs record network flows in an S3 bucket, not disk blocks or database pages. An EC2 Image Builder pipeline produces and distributes AMIs of an instance build; that is not a point-in-time copy of an RDS instance or of data volumes that change during the day. Caveat: RDS automated backups and point-in-time restore remain the tool for recovering to a recent minute within the retention window; AWS Backup provides the fleet-wide plan and cross-Region copy. Practical check: confirm that a backup job succeeded for one tagged volume and that its copy job created a recovery point in the destination Region.