Data Protection

With Veeam Backup for AWS, you can protect AWS resources in the following ways:

Create cloud-native snapshots of EC2 instances and RDS resources (DB instances and Aurora DB clusters)

A cloud-native snapshot of an EC2 instance includes point-in-time snapshots of EBS volumes attached to the processed instance. Snapshots of EBS volumes (also referred to as EBS snapshots) are taken using native AWS capabilities.

A cloud-native snapshot of a DB instance includes a storage volume snapshot of the instance. Snapshots of DB instances (also referred to as DB snapshots) are taken using native AWS capabilities.

A cloud-native snapshot of an Aurora DB cluster includes a storage volume snapshot of the cluster that backs up the entire cluster and not just individual databases. Snapshots of Aurora DB clusters (also referred to as DB cluster snapshots) are taken using native AWS capabilities.

Create image-level backups of EC2 instances

In addition to cloud-native snapshots, you can protect your EC2 instances with image-level backups. An image-level backup captures the whole image of the processed EC2 instance (including instance configuration, OS data, application data and so on) at a specific point in time. The backup is saved as multiple files to a storage bucket in the native Veeam format.

Create backups and backup copies of your EFS file systems

An Amazon EFS file system backup captures the whole image of the EFS file system (including file system configuration, files, directories and so on) at a specific point of time. EFS backups are taken using native AWS capabilities.

Create backups of your VPC configuration

An Amazon VPC configuration backup captures the whole image of a VPC configuration of an AWS account (including multiple VPC configuration settings and components) at a specific point in time.

Important

Veeam Backup & Replication does not support backup of the following VPC configuration components: VPC Traffic Mirroring, AWS Network Firewall, VPC Flow Logs, carrier gateways, customer IP pools, and core networks in route tables.

To schedule data protection task to run automatically, create backup policies. You will be able to run the backup policies on demand and manually perform backup of EC2 instances, RDS resources and EFS file systems. To learn how to perform backup manually, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, sections Creating EC2 Snapshots Manually, Creating RDS Snapshots Manually, Creating EFS Backups Manually. To learn how backup works, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section How Backup Works.

Additional Data Protection Options

You can create an additional layer of protection for your EC2 instances using the following Veeam Backup & Replication functionality:

Create copies of image-level backups

Backup copy jobs allow you to create and keep multiple instances of the same backed-up data in different locations. To learn how to create backup copy jobs, see Creating Backup Copy Jobs.

Store copies of image-level backups on tapes

Backup to tape jobs allow you to keep backups of VM instances on tape devices. To learn how to copy VM instances to tapes, see Copying Backups to Tapes.

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