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title: "Before You Begin"
description: "Before you restore Azure VMs to Amazon EC2, consider the following requirements and limitations: Make sure that you added an AWS user account in Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure and specified their credentials to connect to AWS."
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# Before You Begin

Before you restore Azure VMs to Amazon EC2, consider the following requirements and limitations:

- Make sure that you added an AWS user account in Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure and specified their credentials to connect to AWS.
- Make sure that the user account whose credentials you plan to use to connect to AWS has permissions to restore to Amazon EC2. For more information, see [AWS IAM User Permissions](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/restore_amazon_permissions.html).
- You must have a backup of the VM that you plan to restore to Amazon EC2.
- To restore an Azure VM to an EC2 instance, a helper appliance is required. Consider the following about helper appliances:

  - To upload one VM disk to Amazon EC2, the helper appliance requires 1 GB RAM. Make sure that the type of EC2 instance selected for the helper appliance has enough memory to upload all VM disks.
  - You must enable auto-assignment of public IPv4 addresses in the subnet.
  - The subnet route table must contain a default route to an active AWS internet gateway.
  - The subnet must have no network access control lists (ACLs) or a network ACL that allows inbound and outbound traffic on the ports listed in the Ports section.
  - The security group must allow inbound and outbound traffic on the ports listed in the Ports section.