AWS environments introduce flexibility and scale but also increase backup and recovery complexity when using native tools alone. This white paper outlines eight practical recommendations for simplifying protection across EC2, EBS, RDS, and S3 workloads. Topics include reducing operational overhead through automation, avoiding snapshot sprawl, improving visibility across accounts and regions, and enforcing consistent retention and compliance policies. The paper explains why manual processes and fragmented tools create recovery risk and highlights the importance of centralized management, air-gapped storage, and immutability. It also addresses cost optimization through global deduplication and consumption-based pricing. Together, the tips provide a clear roadmap for building a resilient, sca

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