Backup & Replication - Advantages
Benefits:
Avoid building home-grown tools that you eventually will not have time to support
Know which EC2 and RDS instances are not backed up
Avoid wasting too much time recovering instance or data during an outage
Keep backup costs low by not creating thousands of untrackable manual snapshots
Replicate data and instances to other regions automatically and consistently
Get alerts if backups are missing
Cost effective backup solution for only a $1 per instance per month
Host yourself solutions for enterprise customers
Five Problems Cloudaware Solves:
Relying on home-grown tools or manual backups.
Not knowing which instances are not backed up.
Taking too long to recover instance after accidental termination.
Keeping backup costs low and deleting expired media.
Replicating data to other regions consistently.