Restore to Amazon EC2

Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to restore different workloads (VMs, Google VM instances, physical servers and so on) to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as EC2 instances. An EC2 instance is a virtual machine in Amazon EC2 with a preconfigured combination of computing resources.

You can use Veeam Backup & Replication to perform the following operations:

  • Restore workloads to Amazon EC2 from backups.
  • Migrate workloads from the on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
  • Create a test environment in the cloud for troubleshooting, testing patches and updates, and so on.

Supported Backup Types

You can restore workloads from the following types of backups:

  • Backups of VMware vSphere virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication.
  • Backups of VMware Cloud Director virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication.
  • Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication.

* - Available on Microsoft Windows-based backup server.

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