Managing Licensed Workloads

After you add a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance to the backup infrastructure, you can view the number of protected workloads in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. You can also revoke license units from protected workloads — this can be helpful, for example, if you remove a number of workloads from a backup policy and do not want to protect them anymore.

Monitoring Licensed Workloads

To view protected workloads, do the following:

  1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open the main menu and select License.
  2. In the License Information window, switch to the Instances tab.

The Instances tab displays the following information:

  • Type — the type of protected workloads.
  • Cloud VMs — protected EC2 instances.
  • Cloud Databases — protected RDS resources including Aurora DB clusters.
  • Cloud File Shares — protected EFS file systems.
  • Count —  the number of workloads.
  • Multiplier — the number of license units one workload consumes.
  • Instances — the total number of the consumed license units.

View license

Revoking License Units

You can revoke license units from protected workloads and reapply them to other objects that you plan to protect:

  1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open the main menu and select License.
  2. In the License Information window, switch to the Instances tab and click Manage.
  1. In the Licensed Instances window, select a protected workload and click Revoke. Veeam Backup & Replication will revoke a license unit from the selected workload.

Revoke license