Restoring SAP HANA Database from Backup Stored in S3 Using AWS Backup

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When a backup was created using a particular AWS service, that same service is generally the one designed to manage its full lifecycle, including restoring from it, and that's the key logic behind this answer. Because the SAP HANA backup was created using AWS Backup, AWS Backup is also the appropriate tool to perform the restore, since it maintains the metadata, recovery points, and consistency information tied to that specific backup and provides native restore capabilities built around its own backup format and retention policies. Using AWS Backup for the restore keeps the process aligned with how the backup was originally captured, which matters because a backup taken by one tool isn't always directly usable or restorable through an unrelated tool without extra manual work to reinterpret its format or metadata. This reflects a more general principle in AWS service selection: the tool used to create a resource, whether a backup, a snapshot, or an image, is very often the intended tool to restore or reconstitute it from, because that tool is the one that understands its own metadata and recovery point structure natively. Whenever a scenario tells you which specific AWS service created a backup and then asks which service should be used to restore it, treat that detail as the answer itself - the restore should generally be performed with the same service that performed the backup, rather than switching to a different, unrelated restore mechanism.