Customers have asked for the right solution to safeguard their data on Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and meet their current requirements for Recovery Point Objective (RPO), the maximum acceptable amount of time since the last backup, and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), the maximum acceptable delay between the interruption of service and restoration of service. When you are running SQL Server on EC2 instances, you have multiple options for creating backups of the data and also restoring it.
