Scenarios

A workload (EC2 instance, RDS resource, EFS file system, and so on) is considered to be protected if it has a restore point (backup or snapshot) created by a backup policy during the past 31 days. The number of license units that a protected workload consumes depends on the workload type and product edition. For more information, see Veeam Licensing Policy.

Note

Consider the following:

Cloud-native snapshots and backups that are created manually do not consume any license units. To learn how to create cloud-native snapshots of EC2 instances and RDS resources manually, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, sections Creating EC2 Snapshots Manually and Creating RDS Snapshots Manually. To learn how to create cloud-native backups of EFS file systems manually, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Creating EFS Backups Manually.

VPC configuration backups do not consume any license units. For more information on VPC configuration backups, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Performing VPC Configuration Backup.

When you add a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance to the backup infrastructure, the following scenarios are applied:

If you connect to an existing Veeam Backup for AWS appliance, the BYOL license installed on the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance becomes invalid. Protected instances start consuming license units from the license installed on the backup server only after the backup policy sessions run on the connected appliance.

When you remove the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance from the backup infrastructure, Veeam Backup & Replication stop counting backed-up workloads. Veeam Backup for AWS continues using the license that had been used before you added the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance to the backup infrastructure.

If you deploy a new Veeam Backup for AWS appliance from the Veeam Backup & Replication console, workloads start consuming license units from the license installed on the backup server after you create and run backup policies.

When you remove the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance from backup the backup infrastructure, Veeam Backup & Replication stops counting backed-up workloads and Veeam Backup for AWS switches to the Free edition that allows you to protect up to 10 workloads free of charge. To back up more than 10 workloads, you must install a BYOL license on the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance. To see how to install a new BYOL license, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Licensing.

Licensing When Connection to Veeam Backup & Replication is Lost

Veeam Backup for AWS stores information on protected workloads licensed by Veeam Backup & Replication. This information allows you to back up workloads even if the connection between the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance and backup server is lost. However, the following conditions must be met:

The workload must have already been licensed by the backup server.
The workload must be listed as licensed on the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance side. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Revoking License Units.
The connection must be lost not more than 31 days ago.

Note that the loss of connection with Veeam Backup & Replication does not affect restore processes and creating of snapshots manually.