AWS Backup Service for Continuous Data Security
Discover how to achieve data protection with AWS Backup Service, automating backups, monitoring, and restoring‑test reporting.
Our Customer
Darwin CX is a subscription‑lifecycle management platform designed to help publishers, membership organizations, and media companies transition from print to digital. Their services automate every step – from subscriber acquisition through renewal – so media‑centric businesses can build and scale recurring‑revenue models efficiently and sustainably.
THE CHALLENGES
Reliable and Auditable Backups Across the Organization
The client’s business depended on continuous access to their databases – any data loss could halt operations entirely, as the platform’s functioning is primarily dependent on reliable backups. They needed an AWS Backup setup to protect critical data and satisfy audit requirements.
Key challenges which customer faced included:
- Enabling Backups Organization‑wide
Coordinating AWS Backup solution across all accounts required aligning DevOps and development teams and environments to avoid gaps in coverage. Any missed account left critical data at risk of loss or service interruption. - Backup Tagging Issues
Developers had to apply specific tags (backup=true, backup/rds=true) to every resource, or backups would be skipped. Incorrect or missing tags exposed databases to potential downtime and delayed recovery. - Job Monitoring Gaps
Manually tracking backup, copy, and restore tests across accounts was time-consuming and error‑prone. Lack of centralized visibility slowed down both incident response and feature deployments. - Alerting Response Delays
Alerts needed to reach Slack instantly during business hours and email for audits, or failures went unnoticed. Delayed or misrouted notifications increased outage impact and complicated post‑incident reviews.
THE SOLUTION
End‑to‑End AWS Backup and Reporting Automation
We developed a tailored AWS Backup solution that ensures continuous data protection and minimizes manual intervention from developers’ side.
Infrastructure as Code for Deploying
By codifying the entire environment with Terraform and Terragrunt, our team ensured every service—backups, monitoring, testing—could be deployed identically across accounts, reducing manual errors and drift.
Individual Backup Configurations
Rather than a single AWS Organizations backup policy, we deployed per‑account backup plans. This allowed us to inject replacement parameters for restore tests—workarounds for missing default VPC and RDS subnet group resources that couldn’t be recreated automatically.
Parameter Injection for Restore Testing
By isolating each backup configuration, we could specify non‑default VPC IDs and custom DB subnet group names, restoring RDS snapshots successfully even when AWS defaults had been deleted.
Grafana‑based Monitoring
Using Terraform, dashboards and alert rules were provisioned in Grafana (sourcing metrics from CloudWatch), giving DevOps and developers real‑time visibility into backup, copy, and restore job health.
Automated Restore Testing and Reporting
A Lambda function, scheduled via EventBridge, ran restore tests on a set cadence, aggregated the outcomes, and emailed formatted reports through SES (Simple Email Service)—ensuring stakeholders received timely, consistent audit records.
Amazon Web Services Utilized
THE RESULTS
Intelligent AWS Backup Solution
Our experts designed and implemented a fully configured AWS Backup solution for Darwin CX, delivering continuous monitoring and automated restore testing—ensuring both the team and auditors have complete confidence in their data protection.
Key achievements in details:
- Comprehensive Backup Coverage
All accounts and resources are protected by AWS Backup, ensuring no critical data is overlooked—minimizing the risk of business‑stopping data loss. - Real‑Time Monitoring
Backup to capture the data snapshot essential for recovery, copy operations, duplicate data without the inherent recovery features, and restore job metrics flow into CloudWatch, which are visualized in Grafana. - Alerting via Slack and Email
Failures trigger real‑time alerts to Slack during business hours and to the client’s audit email, thereby promoting responsibility and compliance, simplifying internal auditing, and building trust in backup processes. - Automated Restore Testing
A Lambda function automates restore testing by collecting results and emailing them via SES, ensuring reliable recovery and creating a clear, timestamped audit record that eliminates compliance gaps and review delays.
Why Romexsoft
Secure Your Data with AWS Backup Services
Romexsoft is an AWS-certified Consulting Partner, trusted Software Development Company and Managed Service Provider, founded in 2004. We help customer-centric companies build, run, and optimize their cloud systems on AWS with creative, stable, and cost-efficient solutions.
Our key values:
- Delivery of quality solutions
- Customer satisfaction
- Long-term partnership
We have successfully delivered 100+ projects and have a proven track record in FinTech, HealthCare, AdTech, and Media industries.
Romexsoft possesses a 5-star rating on Clutch due to its strong expertise, responsiveness, and commitment. 60% of our clients have been working with us for over 4 years.
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