There's another critical usage of AWS Backup that I haven't touched, but let's talk about that right now. If we go to jobs here, this is where you get the reported activity of AWS backups. As you can see, I have a job here that completed, which was a backup of my web server. Now, you see three tabs here. One is backup jobs, then restore jobs, and then, copy jobs. Tkind of self-explanatory, let me explain. Backups is going to be the activity of your backup plans or on-demand jobs about certain backups. Of course, the same is true for restore and in this case, it's coming from the backup vault and back into your resources that you are trying to restore. Now, what does copy means?

Copy is essentially a third and critical usage of AWS Backup, which allows for cross-region disaster recovery. Let me show you how that works. We'll go to our backup plan and select it. And if you remember, we have our backup rule right here. I'm going to click on it and then, click the 'Edit' button. And in here at the bottom, you have an option that says, "copy to destination." What this does is it gives you the ability to create a copy that is geographically far away from your data.

This is great because if you have a disaster in AWS, like a data center outage or some natural disaster or something like that, you can have your data automatically copied to a different region. Let's say Canada Central 1, for example. With this copy, you can do, you know, I want to use the default, as I mentioned, most of the time, you'll be using the default. You can do that there. You can add additional copies. So, I want a copy in Canada, but I also want an additional copy in Europe, in case, you know, there's a disaster that occurs in the American continent or some huge Internet outage, your data can still be restored from a third copy in another continent, for example. 

Not only that, but you can activate this option, which allows you to, of course with proper permissions, you can access another backup vault in a different AWS account that you control. As long as it's something that you have access to through IAM, proper permissions, of course, you'll be able to do your backup there. So, again, this is the, probably the third and most useful feature of this tool other than the obvious backup and restore as you having the ability to do cross-region copies that you can always restore in the event of a disaster.