Stopping presence on AWS for a while. What backups to do so we can restore our presence later?

Question

We intend to completely stop our presence on AWS for a while but we would like to come back. How should we best backup our EC2s and other data so that we can restore everything at a later point?

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

regards,
g

Accepted Answer

Hello.

With EC2 and RDS, by creating a snapshot etc. and then deleting the instance, you can use that data when you want to restore it later.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_CreateSnapshot.html

Also, outputting AWS resource configuration data to a CloudFormation template should be useful when you want to use AWS again.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/generate-IaC.html

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Stopping presence on AWS for a while. What backups to do so we can restore our presence later?

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