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Veeam Backup & Replication with AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to add AWS backup appliances to Veeam Backup & Replication and manage data protection and recovery operations for all these appliances from a single Veeam Backup & Replication console. You can use Veeam Backup & Replication with the installed plug-in to perform the following operations:

  • Data protection:
  • Create cloud-native snapshots of EC2 instances and RDS resources (DB instances and Amazon 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 Redshift clusters and store them in any backup vault in the source AWS Region.
  • 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 FSx file systems and store them in any backup vault in the specific AWS Regions.
  • Create backup copies of FSx file systems and store them in specific AWS Regions 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.
  • Data recovery:
  • Restore entire EC2 instances, EC2 instance volumes, as well as EC2 instance 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 RDS DB instances and Aurora DB clusters.
  • Restore PostgreSQL DB instances, DynamoDB tables, Redshift clusters and FSx file systems.
  • Restore entire EFS file systems, as well as EFS files and directories.
  • Restore entire VPC configurations of AWS Regions, as well as specific items of VPC configurations of AWS Regions.
  • Restore the Veeam Backup for AWS configuration database to the same or another backup appliance

For more information, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide.

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