Performing Restore

In various disaster recovery scenarios, you can perform the following restore operations using backed-up data:

  • Instant Recovery — immediately restore EC2 instances from image-level backups to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments, and to Nutanix AHV clusters.
  • EC2 instance disk export — restore volume disks and convert them to disks of the VMDK, VHD or VHDX format.
  • EC2 instance disk publish — publish point-in-time volume disks and copy the necessary files and folders to the target server.
  • Restore to Microsoft Azure — restore EC2 instances from image-level backups to Microsoft Azure as Azure VMs.
  • Restore to Google Cloud — restore EC2 instances from image-level backups to Google Cloud as VM instances.
  • Restore to Nutanix AHV — restore EC2 instances from image-level backups to Nutanix AHV as Nutanix AHV VMs.

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