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Welcome to AWS Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication

AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication is a solution developed for data protection and disaster recovery tasks for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) environments as well as for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) configuration. AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication extends the Veeam Backup & Replication functionality and provides access to Veeam Backup for AWS in the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

Note

AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication is built on top of Veeam Backup & Replication. This guide assumes that you have a good understanding of the Veeam Backup & Replication solution.

With AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication, you can add Veeam Backup for AWS appliances into the backup infrastructure and perform the following operations in the Veeam Backup & Replication console:

  • Start and stop backup policies.
  • Monitor session statistics.
  • View created snapshots and image-level backups.
  • Restore entire EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and guest OS files and folders.
  • Restore entire EC2 instances to Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Nutanix AHV.
  • Perform Instant Recovery of EC2 instances to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments, and to Nutanix AHV clusters.
  • Restore entire RDS resources (DB instances and Aurora DB clusters).
  • Restore entire EFS file systems.
  • Restore VPC configurations.
  • Perform configuration backup and restore.