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Restore to Amazon EC2

Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to restore different workloads (VMs, Google VM instances, physical servers and so on) to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as EC2 instances. An EC2 instance is a virtual machine in Amazon EC2 with a preconfigured combination of computing resources.

You can use Veeam Backup & Replication to perform the following operations:

Restore workloads to Amazon EC2 from backups.
Migrate workloads from the on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
Create a test environment in the cloud for troubleshooting, testing patches and updates, and so on.

Supported Backup Types

You can restore workloads from the following types of backups:

Backups of VMware vSphere or VMware Cloud Director virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication.
Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication.
Backups of virtual and physical machines created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux.

Backups must be created at the entire machine level or volume level.

Backups of Amazon EC2 instances created by Veeam Backup for AWS.

Backups of Microsoft Azure virtual machines created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.
Backups of Google Compute Engine VM instances created by Veeam Backup for Google Cloud.

Backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV.

Backups of oVirt VMs created by Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV.
Backups of Proxmox VE VMs created by Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE.

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