Medium EFS Regional

Amazon EFS volumes should be in backup plans

NISTHIPAA

Description

This control checks whether Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems are added to the backup plans in AWS Backup.


Remediation

To enable automatic backups for an existing Amazon EFS file system, see Getting started 4: Create Amazon EFS automatic backups in the AWS Backup Developer Guide.

Steps

  1. Go to the AWS Backup console.
  2. Create or modify a backup plan to include the EFS file system.
  3. Ensure that the EFS file system is selected in the backup plan.

Compliance

NISTHIPAA