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AWS Backup for Amazon EKS is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region

AWS Backup now offers fully-managed, policy-based data protection and recovery for Amazon EKS clusters in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, including automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies.

AWS Backup support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. This expansion brings fully-managed, policy-based data protection and recovery to Amazon EKS clusters in this newly supported Region, including automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies. AWS Backup for Amazon EKS allows you to protect entire EKS clusters, specific namespaces, or individual persistent volumes using a centralized, agent-free solution that replaces custom scripts or third-party tools. Use AWS Backup to protect your clusters for disaster recovery, compliance requirements, or before EKS cluster upgrades.

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