Posted On: Nov 26, 2024
Today, Amazon Elastics Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of Time-based Copy. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied within and across Amazon Web Services Regions within a specified timeframe.
Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes, and copy them across multiple Regions and accounts, for disaster recovery, data migration and compliance purposes. Time-based Copy gives you predictability when copying your snapshots across Regions. With this feature, you can specify a desired completion duration, ranging from 15 minutes to 48 hours, for individual copy requests, ensuring that your EBS Snapshots meet their duration requirements or Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). You can now also monitor your Copy operations via EventBridge and the new SnapshotCopyBytesTransferred CloudWatch metric, available by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charge.
Amazon EBS Time-based Copy is available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, through the Amazon Web Services Console, Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI), and Amazon SDKs. For pricing information, please visit the EBS pricing page. To learn more, see the technical documentation for Time-based Copy for Snapshots.