Ensure backup plans exclude unnecessary resources to optimize costs
Backup plans should only include resources that require backup protection, excluding ephemeral or easily recreatable resources.
Security Impact
Backing up unnecessary resources increases storage costs without providing recovery value.
How to Remediate
Review backup selections and exclude test environments, temporary instances, and resources with source-controlled configurations.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-backup-14
- Service
- AWS Backup
- Category
- Cost Optimization
- Severity
- LOW
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