Restoring to Amazon EC2

In case a disaster strikes, you can restore entire Amazon EC2 instances from cloud-native snapshots or image-level backups.

To restore EC2 instances from cloud-native snapshots, Veeam Backup & Replication invokes native AWS capabilities. To restore EC2 instances from image-level backups, Veeam Backup & Replication uses different algorithms depending on whether a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance is present in the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure:

• If a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance and S3 repositories connected to it are present in the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the restore algorithm described in the Entire EC2 Instance Restore section in the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide.
• If a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance is not present in the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure and only S3 repositories connected to this appliance are present there, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the restore algorithm described in the How Restore to Amazon EC2 Works section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

To restore EC2 instances, do the following:

1. Check prerequisites
2. Launch the Restore to Amazon EC2 wizard
3. Select EC2 instances and restore points
4. Specify an IAM identity for restore
5. Specify a restore mode
6. Specify a datacenter region
7. Specify instance types and encryption
8. Specify instance names
9. Specify network settings
10. Specify a restore reason
11. Finish working with the wizard