SLA-Based Backup Policies

To simplify data protection and monitor compliance with your target SLA, Veeam Backup for AWS introduces SLA-based backup policies. An SLA-based backup policy is a collection of settings that automate the way backup operations are performed: how frequently to run the backup process, what region-specific repositories to use to store backups, how many restore points should be created in time to meet SLA requirements, and so on.

To help you eliminate error-prone manual steps and save time configuring SLA-based backup policies, Veeam Backup for AWS offers 2 types of templates:

SLA template — includes a periodic backup schedule and a target SLA value that you can use to define protection settings for resources processed by SLA-based backup policies.
Storage template — includes backup storage settings and region-specific storage options that you can use to define target locations for backups created by SLA-based backup policies.

Notes

In Veeam Backup for AWS version 10, you can use SLA-based backup policies to protect EC2 instances only.

Veeam Backup for AWS prioritizes SLA-based backup policies over schedule-based backup policies. If an EC2 instance is included into both a schedule-based and an SLA-based backup policy, it will be processed by the SLA-based backup policy only.