Backup and Recovery on AWS

You’ve heard about backup and recovery on Amazon Web Services (AWS), but you’ve got questions. Well, we have answers.

AWS and Pinnacle Solutions help you build secure, efficient, and cost-effective backup and recovery solutions using technologies you know and trust, with the scalability and reliability of the AWS Cloud.

Pinnacle Solutions can directly integrate your solutions with AWS storage targets, reducing operational complexity and on-premises infrastructure, providing seamless ease of use, and optimizing recovery through operating-system-level search and restore capabilities.

Additional benefits of setting backup and recovery on AWS with Pinnacle Solutions include:

• More granular recovery than built-in application software backups
• Recovery tailored to your recovery time objectives
• Compliance with data regulation policies
• Certified experts with record recovery times

Read the next chapters to learn more about these benefits. If you have any questions or would like to discuss how Pinnacle Solutions can help with backup and recovery on AWS, please call us at 317.423.9143 x1 or fill out a contact form.

I know what you’re thinking, “SAS already backs up my data, why should I invest in Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well?” Let me explain how AWS expands on SAS’s backup and recovery capabilities.

Out of the box, SAS will only create backups of metadata on a daily basis and keep a rolling 7 days of valid backups before rotating one of them out for a newer one. A backup of the SAS configuration is also taken on a weekly basis, which SAS calls the central vault.

Here’s the catch.

SAS’s backups are of a point in time of only your metadata. So if you have one metadata object on a server that you want to revert back to an earlier version, you have to roll back the whole meta repository. You can’t just recover the object individually. Since SAS only backs up your metadata, it will not back up your program files, data, or other critical system files, unless they are contained within the metadata. By combining the capabilities of AWS and SAS, you can recover an earlier version of a single report, table, log, object, or any other file on the server.

By hosting your data and solutions with AWS, you get a more granular level of recovery, on all objects and all files, and you also get recovery models tailored to your recovery time objectives, which we will talk about in our next email.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss how Pinnacle Solutions can help with backup and recovery on AWS, please call us at 317.423.9143 x1 or fill out a contact form.

You want peace of mind that your backup and recovery solution can be ready when you need it. What if you need your environment back up within 24 hours? Before the end of business? Within seconds?

Amazon Web Services’ backup and recovery models are tailored to your recovery time objectives, so you can be confident that your environment will be up and running again as soon as you need it.

• Withing 24 Hours: It’s a simple matter of using the latest Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of your environment to recreate it with all of your data intact.
• Before End of Business Day: Spin up a copy of your production environment capable of running at enough capacity to fulfill your immediate needs but not your normal production workload. An AMI of your production environment will be used to restore your primary environment’s data so you can get back up and running at full capacity.
• Within Seconds: AWS offers High Availability options such as Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) and Relational Database Service (RDS) read replicas so that in the event of a production outage, a healthy web server and/or database instance will be used to serve your users instead.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss how Pinnacle Solutions can help with backup and recovery on AWS, please call us at 317.423.9143 x1 or fill out a contact form.

You can’t talk about data without talking about security compliance and regulations. That’s another area where backup and recovery on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help.

AWS keeps your data secure and encrypted in the cloud. Amazon also handles the physical security of your servers at their high security sites.

Be confident that your backup environment hasn’t been tampered with. AWS’s checksums make sure your backup hasn’t been tampered with before you restore it.

Lastly, organizations required by regulations and compliance policies to archive and keep massive amounts of data can use Glacier on AWS. Glacier allows you to archive large amounts of data in a cost effective way. You can move data to Glacier using AWS’s API or create lifecycle policies within S3 that automatically move it into a Glacier vault after a period of time defined by your lifecycle policy. The data itself is encrypted and Amazon ensures a 99.999999999% durability for each archive uploaded.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss how Pinnacle Solutions can help with backup and recovery on AWS, please call us at 317.423.9143 x1 or fill out a contact form.

You’ve read all about the benefits of using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for backup and recovery. But why should you choose Pinnacle Solutions as your AWS consulting partner and let us handle your backup and recovery solution?

It’s simple. You can’t wait around on IT. You need to have confidence that your backup and recovery will be quick and seamless.

To ensure a quick and seamless backup and recovery process, you need certified experts supporting both your on-premise and hosted data and solutions. That’s where Pinnacle comes in. Our team is the fastest in the business, often taking only hours. On the other hand, your IT department and other consulting partners can sometimes take days to solve your issue and get your system up and running again. Our longest recovery time to date is 4 hours. That’s the kind of agility and track record you need to ensure operations continue to run smoothly.

This is what it comes down to.

Would you rather wait days to have your environment up again? Or hours?

If you have any questions or would like to discuss how Pinnacle Solutions can help with backup and recovery on AWS, please call us at 317.423.9143 x1 or fill out a contact form.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides the flexible, scalable and cost-efficient storage you need for your backup data.

Pinnacle Solutions seamlessly integrates with AWS. Thanks to our certified experts, you can immediately migrate your data and solutions to the cloud, saving you the time, money, and resources you would have to spend training your own team.

So, what are you waiting for? Get started today!

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