AWS Backup adds support for SNS notifications and EventBridge events for backup indexes

Today, AWS Backup announces the addition of notification support for backup indexes in AWS Backup. You can now subscribe to Amazon SNS notifications and Amazon EventBridge events for backup indexing, allowing you to proactively monitor the status of your backup indexes. You can now receive notifications when a backup index is created, deleted, or fails to create, enhancing your ability to monitor and track your backup operations.

To get started, you can subscribe to SNS notifications or create a rule in EventBridge. Once opted in, you will receive notifications on the status of your backup index, including when it is created, deleted or failed to create. This is valuable, as backup indexes are a pre-requisite to the search metadata of your backups and conduct file-level item restores.
Prepare for potential data loss events by knowing when your backup indexes are created as it expedites search and recovery granular data if needed.

AWS Backup support for notification backup indexes is available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, where AWS Backup indexes, Amazon SNS, and Amazon EventBridge are supported are available. You can get started by using the User Notifications Console or CLI and Amazon EventBridge Console or CLI. For more information, visit our documentation.