Quick summary
- Automating backup and recovery for EKS helps eliminate the manual overhead often required to protect Kubernetes environments.
- Effective EKS backup strategies should focus on stateful resources.
- Granular restore capabilities are key to minimizing downtime, enabling teams to recover individual Kubernetes objects without rolling back the entire cluster.
- Incremental backups can reduce storage costs while maintaining security and compliance across cloud-native workloads.
Why Back Up Your EKS Environment?
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service simplifies Kubernetes by managing the control plane for you, but your applications, workloads, and data remain your responsibility. While AWS handles the availability and scalability of the Kubernetes API servers and etcd database, you still manage the worker nodes, where critical resources like containers, persistent storage, and secrets live.
That’s where things get tricky.
Backups aren't optional for teams running stateful applications, like databases or services with Persistent Volumes backed by Amazon EBS. Each pod in your EKS cluster operates within its own namespace and leverages specific PVCs. If any of those resources are accidentally deleted or corrupted, recovery without a backup strategy can be time-consuming, manual, and error-prone.
What Does Eon’s EKS Backup Include?
With Eon’s support for Amazon EKS, we provide a simplified, automated backup solution that removes the usual Kubernetes complexity. Whether you're running a mission-critical app with persistent storage or managing secrets across clusters, Eon gives you full backup and restore coverage where it counts.
Eon customers can enjoy:
- Stateful Workload Protection: Backups for Persistent Volumes, Persistent Volume Claims, and Kubernetes Secrets at the namespace level—targeting the most critical, high-value resources in your EKS environment.
- Automated Backup & Granular Restore: Eon’s Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) seamlessly integrates with your Kubernetes setup, delivering fully automated backup as well as granular restore for individual Kubernetes resources like pods, PVCs, and Secrets—no full restore required.
- Smart Discovery & Policy Management: Eon automatically discovers all Kubernetes objects in your EKS environment, from namespaces to PVCs and Secrets, and applies intelligent backup policies that prioritize your most important resources without manual tagging.
- Storage-Efficient, Cost-Effective Protection: Eon ensures you only store what’s necessary, keeping your storage footprint and costs light without sacrificing protection.
- Unified Backup Management: With EKS now part of the Eon platform, you can view and manage backups across VMs, databases, and Kubernetes clusters from a single dashboard.
How can you get started with Eon?
As more businesses rely on Kubernetes for mission-critical workloads, protecting EKS environments becomes essential. Eon’s backup solution gives you peace of mind that your data is secure, your recovery is fast, and your setup is streamlined.
No Kubernetes expertise required. No manual steps. No surprises.
Ready to simplify your Kubernetes backup strategy? Reach out to us to discover how Eon can protect your EKS data without the complexity.
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