AWS Backup now protects Amazon EKS clusters

AWS Backup just made Kubernetes protection way less painful.

Until today, protecting EKS clusters meant wrestling with custom scripts, third-party tools, or homebrew solutions. Every cluster needed its own maintenance. Every restore required pre-provisioned infrastructure. It was messy.

Not anymore.

AWS Backup now handles EKS natively. One console. One policy. Covers your cluster state, Kubernetes deployments, and persistent volumes (EBS, EFS, S3). You get immutable backups, encrypted recovery points, and policy-driven automation across single or multiple clusters.

The restore piece is what caught my attention though. AWS Backup can now provision a new EKS cluster from your backup configuration and restore directly to it. No pre-staging infrastructure. No manual cluster setup. Just point, click, done.

Salesforce's engineering team called it "a big step forward in closing a critical resiliency gap for Kubernetes platforms." Hard to argue.

Available today across all AWS commercial regions (except China) and GovCloud. Use the console, API, or CLI. You can also create secondary copies across accounts and regions if you want belt-and-suspenders protection.

If partial restores fail, individual resources (EBS volumes, cluster config) are still recoverable. Full cluster restore doesn't work if pieces are missing, but you get granular recovery points so nothing's wasted.

Worth testing if you're running Kubernetes at any real scale. Beats the alternative.