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# Backup

WorkSpaces Manager (WSM) plays a vital role in automating and optimizing the lifecycle of Amazon WorkSpaces. As with any business-critical platform, ensuring a reliable backup and recovery plan is essential. In this blog post, we’ll walk through two supported deployment scenarios of WSM and how to back them up using AWS Backup. We’ll also touch on native mechanisms for Amazon RDS.

## EC2 Instance

In the All-in-One or Application-only deployment models, WorkSpaces Manager is hosted on a single EC2 instance that contains the web application, logic, and embedded database (e.g., SQL Server Express).

Why Back It Up:

* Configuration settings
* Workspace lifecycle policies
* Local SQL Express database (if not using RDS)
* Audit logs and operational metadata


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