Public Cloud Workloads
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.
VCSP partners, who want to manage and protect AWS and Microsoft Azure workloads centrally, have the following options:
- 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 workload 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 Google Cloud workloads, VCSP partners can only connect them to the Veeam Backup & Replication server.
For more information on public cloud workload protection, see Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide and VCSP Technical Hub.
Licensing
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). For standalone licenses, the values are listed in the table below.
|
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, Redshift Serverless 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 |
Consider the following:
- All paid editions of Veeam Backup & Replication support integration with Veeam Backup for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud appliances.
- 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.
If you use Veeam Backup & Replication version 13 and later with a Veeam Data Platform license, see Veeam Data Platform for PPU values.
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:
Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.