Managing Worker Profiles

Worker profiles are instance types of worker instances that Veeam Backup for AWS deploys in a specific AWS Region to perform backup, restore, archive and health check operations. Veeam Backup for AWS deploys one worker instance per each AWS resource added to a backup policy or restore task. The profile of each deployed worker instance is selected based on the performed operation and the size of EBS volumes attached to the processed instance.

There are 4 types of worker profiles in Veeam Backup for AWS:

• Small profile — a profile that is used for backup and restore operations if the total size of all EBS volumes of the processed instance is less than 1024 GB (for EC2 instances) and is less than 80 GB (for RDS resources).
• Medium profile — a profile that is used for backup and restore operations if the total size of all EBS volumes of the processed instance is 1024 GB–16 TB (for EC2 instances) and more than 80 GB (for RDS resources).
• Large profile — a profile that is used for backup and restore operations if the total size of all EBS volumes of the processed instance is more than 16 TB (for EC2 instances).
• Archiving profile — a profile that is used for creating EC2 and RDS archives.

Out of the box, Veeam Backup for AWS comes with the default set of worker profiles where the small profile for both EC2 instances and RDS resources is c5.large, the medium profile for EC2 instances is c5.2xlarge, the medium profile for RDS resources is c5.xlarge, the large profile for EC2 instances is c5.4xlarge, the archiving profile for both EC2 instances and RDS resources is c5.2xlarge. However, to boost operational performance, you can add custom sets of worker profiles to specify instance types of worker instances that will be deployed in different regions.

In This Section

• Adding Profiles
• Editing Profiles
• Removing Profiles