AWS Backup launches support for search and item-level recovery

Today, AWS Backup announces support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups. This capability allows you to search the metadata of your backups so you can find specific files or objects across your backups and recover up to 5 items at a time, allowing for faster recovery times.

You can get started with search and item-level recovery using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. In order to search your Amazon EBS Snapshots or Amazon S3 backups, you must first create a backup index. You can create a backup index via a backup plan, or on-demand after your backup has been created. Once indexed, you can search across multiple backups to locate specific files or objects, without needing to restore multiple backups. You can specify your search criteria based on one or more filters such as file or object name, creation time, and size, as well as resource specific attributes like Amazon S3 object versions to narrow down your results. Once you identify the specific files or objects you are looking for, you can choose to restore just these items directly to an Amazon S3 bucket rather than restoring the full backup, allowing for quicker recovery times.

AWS Backup support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 Backups is available in all commercial Regions, where AWS Backup supports Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups. For information on using AWS Backup search and performing item-level recovery, visit the launch blog and AWS Backup documentation.