Public Cloud Workloads

Product Overview

Veeam Backup for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are native backup and recovery solutions that enable users to gain control of their cloud-hosted data. Users can take advantage of policy-based backup and recovery that scales to cost-effective object storage and keeps data portable for cross-cloud or cloud-to-datacenter designs.

While standalone licensing and deployment options are available, VCSP partners who want to utilize Rental licensing to manage and protect AWS and Microsoft Azure have the following options to manage appliances centrally:

Use the Veeam Backup for Public Clouds plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. This option is preferable if tenants do not have Veeam Backup & Replication servers already installed.
Connect the appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. This option also enables additional restore options to enable cross-platform, cross-cloud migration scenarios.

To manage and protect Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, VCSP partners can only connect the appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication server.

More information on deployment options can be found on VCSP Technical Hub. For general information, including step-by-step configuration support, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing

All paid editions of Veeam Backup & Replication support integration with Veeam Backup for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud appliances. All services, protected by Veeam Backup for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are licensed per workload.

You can create a single license to cover all types of workloads protected by a single Veeam Backup & Replication server. The license file can be generated and assigned to the backup server installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by adding the Cloud VM workload type in the Manage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Backup & Replication section.

Each workload under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit (PPU).

Workload Type	Supported Services	Point Per Unit (PPU)
Public Cloud VM	AWS — EC2 Instances Microsoft Azure — Azure VMs Google Cloud — Google Cloud VM instances	11 points
Public Cloud Database	AWS — RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift Cluster Microsoft Azure — Managed SQL, Cosmos DB Google Cloud — Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner	11 points
Public Cloud File Share	AWS — EFS, FSx Microsoft Azure — Azure Files	11 points

Workload Type

Supported Services

Point Per Unit (PPU)

Public Cloud VM

AWS — EC2 Instances

Microsoft Azure — Azure VMs

Google Cloud — Google Cloud VM instances

11 points

Public Cloud Database

AWS — RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift Cluster

Microsoft Azure — Managed SQL, Cosmos DB

Google Cloud — Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner

11 points

Public Cloud File Share

AWS — EFS, FSx

Microsoft Azure — Azure Files

11 points

Note

Consider the following:

Protecting network-related services including Amazon VPC and Azure Virtual Network does not consume license.
Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2) is licensed in the same way as unstructured data sources. For more details, see Unstructured Data Sources.

To protect VMs located in public clouds, you can also use Veeam Agents. In this case, VMs will be reported as Workstation or Server depending on the backup policy configuration. For more information, see the Veeam Agent Computers section.

Usage Reporting

The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider Console, an automated and free tool for license management and reporting. To enable license usage reporting, connect Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Once done, license usage from all workloads managed by that server will be included into the monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

Directly from Veeam Backup & Replication server

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.