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 vCloud 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.

• [Starting from Veeam Backup & Replication 11a (build 11.0.1.1261)] Backups of RHV VMs created by Veeam Backup for RHV.

In This Section

• Proxy Appliances
• How Restore to Amazon EC2 Works
• AWS IAM User Permissions
• Performing Restore to Amazon EC2