# Configuring backups for a multi-account architecture
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A comprehensive backup strategy is an essential part of a company's data protection plan to withstand, recover, and reduce any impact that might be sustained due to a security event. A backup policy helps you standardize and implement a backup strategy for the resources across all of the accounts in your organization. In a backup policy, you can configure and deploy backup plans for your resources. For more information, see [Backup policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_backup.html) (AWS Organizations documentation). For more information, see [Top 10 security best practices for securing backups in AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/security-best-practices/welcome.html) (AWS Prescriptive Guidance).