Enabling Application-Aware Processing
To enable application-aware processing, at the Guest Processing step of the wizard, set the Enable application-aware snapshots toggle to On.
Limitations and Requirements for Application-Aware Processing
If you plan to instruct Veeam Backup for AWS to create transactionally consistent backups using application-aware processing, in addition to the limitations and requirements for guest processing, consider the following:
- Application-aware processing is available only for EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or later.
- EC2 instances for which you plan to enable application-aware processing must meet the following prerequisites:
- The EC2 instances must have VSS components installed. To learn how to download and install VSS components, see AWS Documentation.
- The EC2 instances must have access to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.
- To allow Veeam Backup for AWS to take VSS-enabled snapshots for the EC2 instances, the following permissions must be granted to the IAM roles attached to the instances:
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "ec2:CreateTags", "Resource": [ "arn:aws:ec2:*::snapshot/*" ] }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "ec2:DescribeInstances", "ec2:CreateSnapshot", "ec2:DescribeSnapshots" ], "Resource": "*" } ] }
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To learn how to create IAM roles for VSS-enabled snapshots and grant permissions to them, see AWS Documentation.
