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AWS Certified Solutions Architect study material · question 249 of 500

Who is responsible for backing up the data on an EBS volume?

  1. AWS, which snapshots every volume nightly
  2. AWS, but only for volumes attached to running instances
  3. The customer, but only for volumes over 1 TiB
  4. The customer, who takes snapshots or automates them
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Answer: D. The customer, who takes snapshots or automates them

AWS does not back up EBS volumes automatically; Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager or AWS Backup can automate the snapshots the customer owns.

Source: Amazon EBS snapshots (Amazon Web Services) — Important

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