AWS Backup quotas
The following quotas apply when working with AWS Backup.
Backup
| Name |
Default |
Adjustable |
| Total vaults (backup and logically air-gapped) per Region per account |
300 |
Yes |
| Recovery points per backup vault |
1,000,000 |
Yes |
| Backup plans per Region per account |
300 |
Yes |
| Versions per backup plan |
2,000 |
Yes |
| Resource assignments per backup plan |
10 |
No |
| Amazon S3 buckets per account |
100 |
Yes |
| Concurrent backup copies per account
outbound to a destination Region |
100 |
Only for virtual machines, Advanced DynamoDB,
Timestream, Amazon EFS and SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 instances |
| Concurrent copies per destination backup
vault in account after the limit (entry above) has been reached |
5 |
No |
| Concurrent cross-account copies that can be made of the same resource to the same destination
Region |
30 |
No |
| Concurrent backup and copy jobs per resource |
1 |
No |
| Tags per resource selection in a cross account backup policy |
30 |
No. Include additional tags using multiple resource assignments or backups plans. |
| Hypervisors |
10 |
No |
| Legal holds per account |
50 |
No |
| Nested backup layers of application stacks |
10 |
No |
Policy quotas
| Name |
Default |
Adjustable |
| Resource assignments per backup plan |
100 |
No |
| Tags in a resource selection |
30 |
No |
| Tags added to a recovery point |
10 |
No |
| Copy actions per backup rule |
5 |
No |
Amazon Timestream resource quotas
| Name |
Default |
Adjustable |
| Concurrent Timestream backup jobs per account |
4 |
Yes |
| Concurrent Timestream restore jobs per account |
1 |
Yes |
AWS Backup Audit Manager quotas
| Name |
Default |
Adjustable |
| Frameworks per account per Region |
15 |
Yes |
| Controls per account per Region |
50 |
Yes |
| Report plans per account |
20 |
Yes |
| Frameworks per report plan |
1,000 |
No |
| [Number of accounts] multiplied by [number of Regions in a report plan] |
300 |
No |
| [Number of accounts] multiplied by [number of Regions in a report plan]
multiplied by [number of daily jobs plus evaluations in a report plan] |
100,000 |
No |
Restore testing plan quotas
| Name |
Default |
Adjustable |
| Restore testing plans |
100 |
No |
| Tags per plan |
50 |
No |
| Selections per plan |
30 |
No |
| ARNs per restore testing selection |
30 |
No |
Conditions per selection (both StringEquals and
StringNotEquals) |
30 |
No |
| Vault selectors per restore testing selection |
30 |
No |
| Maximum value (in days) of selection window |
365 days |
No |
| Boundaries of start window hours |
Minimum: 1 hour; Maximum: 168 hours |
No |
| Maximum character length of restore testing plan name |
50 characters (alphanumeric and underscores, no white spaces) |
No |
| Maximum character length of restore testing selection name |
50 characters (alphanumeric and underscores, no white spaces) |
No |
AWS Backup gateway quotas
| Name |
Default |
Adjustable |
| Backup or restore jobs per gateway |
4 |
No. Create more gateways and connect them to your hypervisor. |
There are
quotas on a single resource assignment in a single backup rule. You can create a backup plan
with multiple backup rules.
When you manage backups across multiple accounts using AWS Organizations, you might encounter
quotas that AWS Organizations imposes. For these quotas, see Quotas for
AWS Organizations in the AWS Organizations User Guide.
You might also encounter quotas imposed by a AWS Backup-supported service,
including the following:
