Overview

Note

Starting from version 7.0, AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication is part of the Veeam Backup for AWS architecture. That is why the AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide has been merged into the main product guide.

Veeam Backup for Amazon Web Services (Veeam Backup for AWS) is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) environments. Veeam Backup for AWS also allows you to back up and restore Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) configurations.

With Veeam Backup for AWS, you can perform the following data protection operations:

  • Create cloud-native snapshots of EC2 instances.
  • Create cloud-native snapshots of RDS resources: DB instances and Amazon Aurora DB clusters (Aurora DB clusters).
  • Replicate cloud-native snapshots to any AWS Region within any AWS account.
  • Create image-level backups of EC2 instances and keep them in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for high availability, cost-effective and long-term storage.
  • Create image-level backups of PostgreSQL DB instances and keep them in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for high availability, cost-effective and long-term storage.
  • Create backups of DynamoDB tables and store them in any backup vault in the source AWS Region.
  • Create backup copies of DynamoDB tables and store them in any AWS Region within the same AWS account.
  • Create backups of EFS file systems and store them in any backup vault in the source AWS Region.
  • Create backup copies of EFS file systems and store them in any AWS Region within the same AWS account.
  • Create backups of VPC configurations and keep them in the Veeam Backup for AWS database and in Amazon S3.
  • Create backups of the Veeam Backup for AWS configuration database.

To recover backed-up data, you can perform the following operations:

  • Restore entire EC2 instances.
  • Restore EC2 instance volumes.
  • Restore EC2 instance files and folders.
  • [Available only for backup appliances managed by Veeam Backup & Replication] Restore entire EC2 instances to Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Nutanix AHV.
  • [Available only for backup appliances managed by Veeam Backup & Replication] Perform Instant Recovery of EC2 instances to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments, and to Nutanix AHV clusters.
  • Restore RDS DB instances, PostgreSQL DB instances and Aurora DB clusters.
  • Restore DynamoDB tables.
  • Restore entire EFS file systems.
  • Restore EFS files and directories.
  • Restore entire VPC configurations of AWS Regions.
  • Restore specific items of VPC configurations of AWS Regions.
  • Restore the Veeam Backup for AWS configuration database to the same or another backup appliance

Important

Consider the following:

  • Veeam Backup for AWS is available only in AWS Global and AWS GovCloud (US) regions.
  • Starting from version 7.0, Veeam Backup for AWS is part of the Veeam Backup & Replication solution, and some new features are available only for backup appliances managed by Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information, see Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.

Data Protection Operations