Lately, Veeam brought a fresh release of its AWS backup solution, Veeam Backup for AWS v4. Veeam is continually building and innovating new functions to help clients deliver on the guarantee of cloud-native data defense.

Veeam Back-up for AWS is really a cloud-native backup remedy that delivers enterprise-grade back-up consistency to the AWS community cloud. Packed filled with capabilities and features, Veeam Back-up for AWS is really a element of the Veeam-centralized information administration suite, leveraging Amazon S3 object storage along with other AWS providers to integrate and offer a seamless data safety experience.

With Veeam Backup for AWS v4, we’ve included three key functions that deliver on that guarantee of providing business data protection.

EFS volume security

EFS volume protection supplies the capabilities to back again up and protect all of your AWS EFS volumes and restore either the complete EFS volume, or person files. By generating an EFS quantity protection plan in Veeam Back-up for AWS, it is possible to specify an area EFS back-up vault and have the choice to copy the back-up to a new vault in another region.

When restoring an EFS volume, a genuine number of various capabilities exist including file-degree restore and full-volume restore.

When performing a restore of possibly the full quantity or individual files, these could be restored across various AWS accounts, to the initial location or to a fresh location with various settings. This supplies a powerful method to perform restores, giving granular manage to the restore operator. Whether recovering production information to the surroundings directly, or to a recuperation or staging environment, possessing these different alternatives is crucial in a production atmosphere.

KMS Assistance

With Veeam Backup for AWS, now you can use AWS KMS (Key Management Services) keys to encrypt the backup data at relax in an object storage space backup repository. These keys are manufactured in the AWS console and used to encrypt the backup information at rest then. This gives secure backup storage space of the info in the object storage space repositories within AWS.

Whenever a KMS encryption key is selected, all backups stored within that repository use that important for encryption then. Veeam Back-up for AWS furthermore checks that not one of the keys used for encryption are usually marked for pending deletion. If this is actually the full case, a notification will be displayed giving the back-up operator a week to select another key. Enabling encryption for information at rest can be an important device for fighting against information theft, meeting compliance rules for several industries (healthcare, economic, etc.) and avoiding unauthorized accessibility. Leveraging AWS KMS keys offers a simple solution to manage the encryption on your own backup repositors.

Archive Tiers

With more and much more data being stored in the cloud, longer-term data retention costs have already been arriving at forefront of administrator’s minds. With the most recent version of Veeam Back-up for AWS , different tiers are usually supported when making object storage space backup repositories now. Three various tiers are supported:

• • S3

• • S3 Glacier

• • S3 Glacier Strong Archive

The different repositories are manufactured and configured once, you define which back-up archive and repository repository you need to use from within the back-up policy configuration wizard.

Once the backup archiving is enabled, Veeam Backup for AWS use the selected archive for longer-term data storage space costs. Enabling longer-term information retention on specific archives is performed through the monthly back-up scheduling wizard simply by toggling the “Send backups to archive” switch. Any backups stored for longer than 180 times shall be delivered to the backup archive.

This automatic policy option helps reduce data storage costs when keeping backups for longer durations.

Overview

Veeam Back-up for AWS v4 contains some significant new function capabilities to greatly help bring true business data defense to the AWS general public cloud. With Veeam Back-up for AWS, it is possible to manage data safety for EC2 & RDS situations, shield and restore VPC construction data, and today protect your EFS volumes all from within one managed location centrally. Additionally, with Veeam Back-up & Replication, it is possible to manage all of your cloud systems from within one administration portal.