Automate comprehensive data protection using AWS CloudFormation StackSets
Integration & Automation Blog
This article explains how to automate comprehensive data protection using AWS CloudFormation StackSets to create Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager default policies for backing up Amazon EC2 instances and EBS volumes across all regions and accounts in an AWS Organization or Organizational Unit (OU).
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview and prerequisites
- Step-by-step walkthrough to:
- Create default policies for the StackSet
- Modify default policies (e.g., change backup frequency)
- Deploy using CI/CD pipeline (optional)
- Cleanup steps to delete the default policies and StackSet
- Conclusion and next steps
The AWS News Feed is currently looking for gold sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.
Related articles
Nov 21
2025
2025
Take fine-grained control of your AWS CloudFormation StackSets Deployment with StackSet Dependencies
Apr 22
2024
2024
Using Protective DNS services with AWS workloads
Apr 16
2024
2024
Manage your Amazon Lex bot via AWS CloudFormation templates
Apr 15
2024
2024
Automate incident reports from AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager
The AWS News Feed is currently looking for silver sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.