This document provides best practices for architecting cloud backup and recovery solutions using AWS services. It discusses using cloud gateways like AWS Storage Gateway and NetApp AltaVault to back up on-premises data to AWS cloud storage services. AWS Snowball is introduced as a way to physically transfer large amounts of data into AWS. The document recommends using Amazon S3, Glacier, and S3 Infrequent Access storage for backups and applying lifecycle policies to optimize storage costs.

1. © 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Isaiah Weiner, AWS Partner Solutions Architecture
3/31/2016
Best Practices for Architecting
Cloud Backup and Recovery
Solutions

2. Why Cloud for Backup & Restore?
 Save the day!
- Simple way to start using the cloud
- Addresses the cost and scale problems of data retention
 Capitalize on your investments
- 3rd parties with Cloud Connectors
- Cloud Gateway: local performance with cloud scale
 Take it to the next level
- Migrate old backups from on-prem ($$$$$) to the cloud ($)
- Eliminate tapes, trucks, trucks with tapes. Be green!

3. Backup and Recovery before the Cloud
Application
servers
Local disk
Media
Server
Tape Storage
Data Bunker

4. Backup and Recovery to the Cloud
Amazon S3
Amazon
Glacier
AWS
Direct
Connect
Internet
Amazon S3-IA
Application
servers
Cloud Gateway
Local disk
Media
Server
Cloud Gateway
Application
servers
Cloud Connector
Local disk
Media Server
with cloud
connector
AWS

5. Cloud Gateway: AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon EBS
snapshots
Amazon S3
Amazon
Glacier
AWS
Storage Gateway
appliance
Application
server
AWS
Storage Gateway
backend
AWS
Direct
Connect
Internet
Customer premises
AWS

6. Cloud Gateway: NetApp AltaVault
Common backup applications integrated with AltaVaultSolve backup & archive headaches with cloud-integrated
storage
 90% reduction in time, cost, and data volumes
 Shrink recovery times from days to minutes
 85% of backup & software providers supported
On Premises
Cloud-integrated
storage appliance
NetApp AltaVault
FAS
E-Series
Non-NetApp
Storage
Seamlessly integrates into
existing storage and backup
software environment
Deduplicates, compresses,
and encrypts
Caches recent backups
locally, vaults older copies to
the cloud
 NetApp SnapProtect
 Arcserve
 CommVault Simpana
 EMC NetWorker
 HP Data Protector
 IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager
 Symantec Backup
Exec
 Symantec (Veritas)
NetBackup
 Veeam
 Microsoft SQL
Server
 Oracle RMAN
AltaVault also available on marketplace
to protect cloud-native workloads
Store data in the public or
private cloud of choice
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Amazon S3-IA
AWS

7. Cloud Gateways
AWS Storage Gateway
 Virtual appliance
 Amazon EC2 instance
 iSCSI
 S3, Glacier
 Extremely Low Cost
NetApp AltaVault
 Virtual appliance
 AWS Marketplace AMI
 NFS, SMB
 S3, Glacier
 Hardware appliance option
 Enterprise Features

8. What should I use, and when?
Economics Easy to Use Reduce risk Agility, Scale
 Pay as you go
 No upfront investment
 No commitment
 No risky capacity
planning
 Self service administration
 SDKs for simple
integration
 Durable and Secure
 Avoid risks of physical
media handling
 Reduce time to market
 Focus on your business,
not your infrastructure
Amazon S3
Durable object storage
for all types of data
Amazon EBS
Block storage for use
with Amazon EC2
Amazon Glacier
Archival storage
for infrequently
accessed data
Amazon EFS
File storage for use
with Amazon EC2

9. Active Archive

10. What is Snowball? Petabyte scale data transport
E-ink shipping
label
Ruggedized case
“8.5G Impact”
All data encrypted
end-to-end
Rain & dust
resistant
Tamper-resistant
case & electronics
50 TB
10GE network

11. How it works

12. How fast is Snowball?
 Less than 1 day to transfer 250TB via 5x10G connections with 5 Snowballs, less than
1 week including shipping
 Number of days to transfer 250TB via the Internet at typical utilizations
Internet Connection Speed
Utilization 1Gbps 500Mbps 300Mbps 150Mbps
25% 95 190 316 632
50% 47 95 158 316
75% 32 63 105 211

13. When to use AWS Import/Export Snowball
Cloud
Migration
Disaster
Recovery
Datacenter
Decommission
Content
Distribution
AWSAWS

14. Use Amazon Glacier
for lowest-cost, durable cold
storage of archival data
Use Amazon S3
for reliable, durable
primary storage
Use Amazon S3
Infrequent Access
Storage
for secondary backups
at a lower cost
S3-IA
Tier backups on AWS: optimize storage spend

15. Key prefix “logs/”
Transition objects to Glacier 30 days after creation
Delete 365 days after creation date
<LifecycleConfiguration>
<Rule>
<ID>archive-in-30-days</ID>
<Prefix>logs/</Prefix>
<Status>Enabled</Status>
<Transition>
<Days>30</Days>
<StorageClass>GLACIER</StorageClass>
</Transition>
<Expiration>
<Days>365</Days>
</Expiration>
</Rule>
</LifecycleConfiguration
S3 lifecycle policies

16. Dive Deep on Active Archive
AWS re:Invent 2015: STG202 AWS Import/Export Snowball: Large-Scale Data Ingest into AWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ogJHFSJRo
Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stg202-aws-importexport-snowball-largescale-data-
ingest-into-aws
Third-Party SEC 17a-4(f) Assessment for Vault Lock
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/glacier-cohasset-assessment/
Service details and pricing
https://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

17. Thank you!