Alibaba Cloud products support cross-region data backup, enabling you to back up or replicate data to other regions. This capability helps meet disaster recovery and compliance audit requirements. This topic summarizes cross-region backup solutions and documentation for various products.
Quick reference
Product/Category | Solution |
Cross-region backup for RDS, PolarDB, and MongoDB | |
Cross-region replication (CRR) within the same account or across accounts | |
Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) | Cross-region snapshot copy |
Access data across regions using OSS external tables | |
Cross-region credential migration | |
Cross-region data migration | |
Cloud Backup (HBR)/Export to MaxCompute | |
Cluster backup, recovery, and cross-region migration |
Databases
The cross-region backup feature for the Dubai and Saudi Arabia regions is undergoing an expedited launch.
Cloud Product | Solution | Documentation |
RDS MySQL | Cross-region backup | |
RDS PostgreSQL | Cross-region backup | |
RDS SQL Server | Cross-region backup | |
PolarDB MySQL | Cross-region backup | |
MongoDB | Cross-region backup |
OSS
Solution | Documentation |
CRR | |
CRR within the same account | |
CRR across accounts |
ECS and EBS
Solution | Documentation |
Replicate ECS instances across regions using custom images | |
Server migration guide | |
Create cloud disk snapshots | |
Copy snapshots across regions |
MaxCompute
Solution | Documentation |
Access data across regions using OSS external tables |
KMS
Solution | Documentation |
Cross-region credential migration |
NAS
Solution | Documentation |
NAS data migration |
Tablestore
The cross-region backup feature for the Dubai and Saudi Arabia regions is undergoing an expedited launch.
Solution | Documentation |
Cloud Backup (HBR) backup | |
Export to MaxCompute using DataWorks |
ACK
Solution | Documentation |
Back up and recover applications within a cluster | |
Migrate applications across clusters within the same region | |
Migrate applications across clusters across regions |