AWS Backup enhances Amazon EC2 restores with custom volume configuration support

AWS Backup now offers enhanced Amazon EC2 restore capability that allows you to customize volume configurations during the restoration process. This new feature enables users to specify custom settings for all the attached Amazon EBS volumes to an EC2 AMI, including volume type, size, IOPS, AWS KMS encryption keys and others, directly through AWS Backup. The capability works seamlessly for restores from standard backup vaults and logically air-gapped vaults.

You can start using this feature through the AWS Backup CLI, or SDK. During EC2 backup restoration, you can now include a new section (block device mappings) in your restore metadata to configure Amazon EBS volume settings. You can also specify additional volumes in the block device mappings to attach when launching the instance. The enhancement applies to both existing and new EC2 backups and is available at no extra cost.

AWS Backup support for enhanced EC2 restores is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, where AWS Backup is supported. To learn more about AWS Backup support for this feature, visit the AWS Backup product documentation.