Top 10 security best practices for securing backups in AWS
Ibukun (IB) Oyewumi, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
May 2022 (document history)
Security is a shared
responsibility between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and customers. Customers have asked for ways
to secure their backups in AWS. Because security practices constantly evolve to mitigate new
risks, it’s important that you conduct regular risk assessments to determine the applicability
of security controls, and implement multiple layers of controls to mitigate risks to your
data.
This document will guide you through a curated list of the top 10 security best practices
for securing your backup data and operations in AWS. While this guide focuses on backup data
and operations using the AWS Backup service, these
recommended security best practices can be used with other backup solutions, such as backup
tools from the AWS Marketplace.
