How do I connect an Amazon S3 instance to an Amazon EC2 instance for backup storage?

Question

Amazon Web Services

I have a working EC2 instance in amazon running centos
There are databases and files, a script periodically runs that collects them into an archive.
How can I dump them on a separate amazon S3 instance?

Answer 1

You can use the built-in snapshot system. It automatically saves them to S3. Although you won't see additional buckets, they are stored there.
If you want to set up automatic daily copying, you can use my gist.
https://gist.github.com/Serhioromano/9738785
There are step by step instructions on how to set it up.
Using snapshots to store backups is very convenient. They are cumulative. That is, each snapshot only changes from the previous one, so 10 snapshots will not take up much space. On the other hand, making a disk from them and connecting to a new server is a matter of several minutes without running any commands in the terminal.

Answer 2

There is even s3fs