SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to centrally manage backups of EC2 instances across multiple accounts. Which service should they use?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse AWS Backup with disaster recovery services like CloudEndure, not realizing that AWS Backup is purpose-built for centralized, policy-driven backup management across multiple accounts, while CloudEndure focuses on continuous replication for failover, not scheduled backups.
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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AWS Backup
AWS Backup is the correct service because it provides a fully managed, policy-based backup solution that integrates with AWS Organizations to centrally manage backups across multiple accounts. It allows you to define backup policies that automatically apply to EC2 instances and other supported resources across all member accounts, ensuring compliance and centralized monitoring without requiring per-account manual configuration.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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AWS CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
Why it's wrong here
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery replicates servers for failover to AWS; it does not provide centralised, policy-driven EC2 backup management across accounts. AWS Backup does, through cross-account backup vaults and organisation policies. CloudEndure is tempting when the requirement is continuous replication and low-RTO disaster recovery, not scheduled backups.
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Amazon S3 Glacier
Why it's wrong here
S3 Glacier stores archival objects; it cannot orchestrate EC2 instance backups across accounts. AWS Backup does, using cross-account backup vaults and organisation policies. Glacier is tempting when the requirement is cheap long-term retention of data already captured, not centralised backup scheduling and lifecycle management.
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AWS Storage Gateway
Why it's wrong here
Storage Gateway presents on-premises or file, volume and tape interfaces into AWS storage; it does not schedule or coordinate EC2 instance backups across accounts. AWS Backup does, via cross-account vaults and organisation policies. Storage Gateway suits hybrid migration or caching scenarios, not centralised EC2 backup governance.
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AWS Backup
Why this is correct
AWS Backup provides a central backup policy that spans accounts in AWS Organizations, letting you define and monitor backup plans for EC2 instances across the entire organisation from one place, which satisfies the centralised multi-account management requirement.
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