Your EC2 instance has an EBS volume which is your virtual hard drive. You can take snapshots which are then stored on AWS managed S3. When you take additional snapshots it only backs up the difference in changes like a git repository.
They don't recommend to take EBS snapshots while the server is running but you certainly can and this is what I do and I've had no ill adverse effects (data loss or reduced server speed).
You could also sync just the files you want to s3 but this I think is less desirable now that I've done both methods.
You can automate EBS snapshots on schedule via CloudWatch events. CloudWatch events are basically serverless cron jobs, and much better than configuring your instance.
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Your EC2 instance has an EBS volume which is your virtual hard drive. You can take snapshots which are then stored on AWS managed S3. When you take additional snapshots it only backs up the difference in changes like a git repository.
They don't recommend to take EBS snapshots while the server is running but you certainly can and this is what I do and I've had no ill adverse effects (data loss or reduced server speed).
You could also sync just the files you want to s3 but this I think is less desirable now that I've done both methods.
You can automate EBS snapshots on schedule via CloudWatch events. CloudWatch events are basically serverless cron jobs, and much better than configuring your instance.