title: DynamoDB backup and restore using Data pipelines. How long does it take to backup and recover?
body: <p>I'm planning to use Data pipelines as a backup and recovery tool for our DynamoDB. We will be using amazon's prebuilt pipelines to backup to s3, and use the prebuilt recovery pipeline to recover to a new table in case of a disaster.</p>
  <p>This will also serve a dual purpose of data archival for legal and compliance reasons. We have explored snapshots, but this can get quite expensive compared to s3. Does anyone have an estimate on how long it takes to backup a 1TB database? And How long it takes to recover a 1TB database?</p>
  <p>I've read amazon docs and it says it can take up to 20 minutes to restore from a snapshot but no mention of how long for a data pipeline. Does anyone have any clues?</p>