License Consumption

Veeam Data Cloud is licensed per user or terabyte (TB). Each licensed unit under protection consumes the license at a Point Per Unit (PPU) rate. In comparison with software licensed workloads, Veeam Data Cloud PPU is based on the SaaS Pricing curve. If you already have a software rental agreement, the number of points available to you in terms of this agreement will be inherited by the SaaS rental licensing but the SaaS pricing rate will be applied. For example, if you have a 800 Point software rental agreement, you will have 800 SaaS points at the SaaS pricing rate.

Veeam Data Cloud licensing plans are managed either as standalone subscriptions or as part of a bundle. You can hold only one active subscription for the same product at a time: whether the product is provisioned individually or as part of a bundle.

You can move from standalone to bundle licensing plan or from bundle to standalone plan, depending on your business needs and product usage. For more information, see Switching Between Standalone and Bundle Licensing Plans.

Bundle Licensing Plans

Veeam Data Cloud bundles combine multiple products into a subscription package. Microsoft 365 serves as the primary product, and its PPU rate applies to the entire bundle. License consumption from other included products is converted to the primary product consumption using predefined conversion ratios.

The conversion ratios are 3 for Microsoft Entra ID and 1 for Salesforce. This means that you can protect up to three Entra ID member users and one Salesforce user at no additional cost for each Microsoft 365 user you back up (if Salesforce protection is also included in your bundle).

For example, you have the Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Advanced Plus bundle (PPU = 4) and protect 1000 Microsoft 365 users and 4000 Microsoft Entra ID users. Using the conversion ratio (3), Entra ID consumption equals ROUNDUP(4000/3) = 1334 Microsoft 365 users. Bundle consumption is MAX(1000, 1334) = 1334 users, and bundle points are 1334 × 4 = 5336.

If you enable protection only for some of the products in your bundle, Veeam Data Cloud will still calculate consumed points based on the PPU of the entire bundle. To take advantage of the bundle, create backup policies for all products included in the bundle as soon as possible. Start creating backup policies for Microsoft 365 first, as they may take the longest to prepare.

The following table lists the available Veeam Data Cloud bundles, the options included in each plan, the licensed unit type, and the corresponding price per unit.​

Standalone Licensing Plans

Standalone editions are provisioned individually, allowing you to subscribe to a single product without bundling it with others.

The following table lists the available Veeam Data Cloud standalone editions, along with their licensed units and price per unit.

For more information on Veeam Data Cloud Vault editions, see the Product Editions section of the Veeam Data Cloud User Guide.