Ports

As Veeam Plug-in for AWS is installed on the same machine where Veeam Backup & Replication runs, it uses the same ports as those described in section Ports —  in addition to the ports listed in the following table.

Ports

From

To

Protocol

Port

Notes

Web browser (local machine)

Backup appliance

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to access the Web UI component from a user workstation.

SSH

22

[Optional] Required to connect to the backup appliance using SSH.

TCP/HTTPS

11005

[Optional] Default port required to communicate with the public REST API service running on the backup appliance. For more information on Veeam Plug-in for AWS REST API, see the Veeam Plug-in for AWS REST API Reference.

To learn how to change the port number, see the Configuring Security Settings section in the Veeam Plug-in for AWS REST API Reference.

Worker instances

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to access the file-level recovery browser running on a worker instance during the file-level recovery process.

Backup appliance

SMTP server

TCP/SMTP

25

Default port used for sending email notifications.

Veeam Update Repository (repository.veeam.com), Amazon CloudFront (cloudfront.net, amazonaws.com)

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to download available product updates, worker deployment packages and restore utilities.

Note: Veeam Update Repository uses the Amazon CloudFront service to distribute traffic when downloading product updates.

Ubuntu Security Repository and OS Update Repository (security.ubuntu.com, archive.ubuntu.com)

TCP/HTTP

80

Required to get OS security updates.

Microsoft Package Repository (packages.microsoft.com, dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net)

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to get .NET package updates.

PostgreSQL Apt Repository (apt.postgresql.org, archive.ubuntu.com)

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to get PostgreSQL updates.

PostgreSQL Website (postgresql.org)

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to download the PostgreSQL Apt Repository key.

AWS services

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to perform data protection and disaster recovery operations.

Route 53 Resolver

UDP

53

[Optional] Default port required to perform DNS resolution if you plan to use a custom DNS server for your VPC.

Worker instances

AWS services

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to perform data protection and disaster recovery operations.

Route 53 Resolver

UDP

53

[Optional] Default port required to perform DNS resolution if you plan to use a custom DNS server for your VPC.

Veeam Plug-in for AWS

Backup appliance, AWS services

TCP/HTTPS

443

Port used for communication with AWS and the backup appliance.

AWS CheckIP service
(DNS name: checkip.amazonaws.com)

TCP/HTTPS

443

Required to get the public IP address of the Veeam Backup & Replication server during the deployment of Veeam Plug-in for AWS.

Veeam Backup & Replication console and Veeam ONE server

Veeam Plug-in for AWS

TCP/HTTPS

443

Port used to connect to Veeam Plug-in for AWS.

To open network ports, you must add rules to security groups associated with solution architecture components:

To learn how to add security groups rules, see AWS Documentation.

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