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. For more information, see Protecting EC2 Instances.

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.