Step 8. Configure Amazon Archiver Appliance

At this step of the wizard, you can optionally enable usage of the Amazon archiver appliance when Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 creates a backup copy. Backed-up data is transferred between different instances of the general purpose object storage (Amazon S3 Standard and Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access storage classes) or to any of Amazon S3 Glacier object storage (Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes). For more information about supported Amazon S3 storage classes, see Supported Amazon S3 Storage Classes.

If you use the archiver appliance, it usually speeds up the backup copy process and helps you reduce costs incurred by your cloud storage provider. Also, using the archiver appliance, you protect your backups because all operations with backed-up data are performed within the Amazon cloud.

The Amazon archiver appliance is an auxiliary EC2 instance that is deployed and configured automatically by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 in Amazon EC2 only for the duration of a backup copy job. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 removes or reuses it after a backup copy job completes. By default, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 always keeps one archiver appliance for reuse.

If you do not want to use the Amazon archiver appliance, skip this step and click Finish.

Note

Even if you have enabled usage of the archiver appliance for object storage, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 will not create it when transferring backed-up data between object storage of different vendors.

To enable usage of the Amazon archiver appliance, do the following:

  1. Select the Use an archiver appliance to copy data to this repository check box.
  2. Click Customize if you want to change the default settings of the archiver appliance.

Amazon Archiver Appliance

  1. In the Cloud Archiver Appliance Settings window, do the following:
  1. From the EC2 instance type drop-down list, select the instance type for the archiver appliance. For more information on instance types, see this Amazon article.
  2. From the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) drop-down list, select the Amazon VPC where Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 will launch the target instance. For more information on the Amazon VPC, see this Amazon article.
  3. From the Subnet drop-down list, select the subnet for the archiver appliance.

Keep in mind that auto-assignment of public IPv4 addresses must be enabled in the subnet. For more information, see this Amazon article.

  1. From the Security group drop-down list, select a security group that will be associated with the archiver appliance.

Keep in mind that the security group must allow inbound and outbound traffic through the listed ports. For more information on security groups for Amazon VPC, see this Amazon article.

  1. Specify the port that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 will use to route requests between the archiver appliance and backup infrastructure components.
  2. Click OK.

Configuring Amazon Archiver Appliance