Native back-up support for EKS clusters

Hi there,

I understand that you would like to know if you can leverage the AWS Backup service to create backups of your EKS clusters.

Please note that the the "AWS Backup" service can only backup AWS resources - it does not support backing up an EKS cluster and the Kubernetes resources inside the cluster.

There is a 3rd party tool by VMWare called Velero [1] that can be used to backup EKS clusters. AWS has a blog post that goes through how to use Velero step by step to backup an EKS cluster [2], the EKS Best Practice guide also refers to Velero [4]. - Velero can be used to backup all namespaces in the cluster or it can be restricted to only backup specific namespaces.

I recommend reading through the Velero documentation [3] for more information on the different configuration options that can be set as well as how to run Velero backups.

I hope this helps!

Ahmad

[1] https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/backup-and-restore-your-amazon-eks-cluster-resources-using-velero/

[3] https://velero.io/docs/v1.8/backup-reference/