Veeam Strengthens Relationship With Amazon

Veeam Software, Inc. announces several highlights in regards to AWS, including availability of its Backup for AWS v2.

It has also achieved AWS Storage Competency status, validating that its solutions are proven to help solve customer challenges and meet business goals.

Backup for AWS, originally launched in 4Q19, delivers AWS-native Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) backup and recovery that is both cost-effective and secure, available exclusively in AWS Marketplace in free, paid and bring your own license (BYOL) editions.

Backup for AWS is capable of being implemented as a standalone AWS backup and DR solution for AWS-to-AWS backup, or integrated with the Veeam platform, delivering cloud mobility and data portability for backup, recovery and migration to, from and within any environment – cloud, virtual or physical.

“Veeam R&D efforts for future releases have always been built off of feedback from our strong user and partner community, and this latest release of Veeam Backup for AWS is no different,” said Danny Allan, CTO and SVP of product strategy, Veeam. “We continually remind our users and partners that it is the customer’s responsibility to make sure their data is protected and secure, whether it is stored on-premises or in the cloud – and even more so now when data holds more value than ever. In Q1 of 2020, Veeam had increased the data protected in Amazon S3 by more than 20x Y/Y. Our recent releases in AWS Marketplace, as well as our AWS Storage Competency achievement, not only strengthens our commitment to be a leader in cloud data management, but in further extending Veeam-powered data protection to AWS customers.“

Backup for AWS has seen fast adoption among users looking to protect their workloads on AWS. The latest release of the product includes enhancements and capabilities most requested by customers and partners, including:

• AWS DR to protect vs. regional outages by replicating and recovering Amazon Elastic Block Store Amazon EBS) snapshots across AWS accounts and AWS regions.
• Integration with changed block tracking (CBT) API to shrink backup windows as well as compute and storage costs.
• Application consistent snapshots and backups of running Amazon EC2 instances without shutting down or disconnecting attached Amazon EBS volumes.
• Public RESTful API to securely connect external applications and workflows to integrate with and manage Backup for AWS.

Veeam’s status as an advanced technology partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) has been elevated with the achievement of AWS Storage Competency status. Veeam has demonstrated significant success in helping customers evaluate, implement, and use the techniques and technologies of moving, using and protecting data to and on AWS, including archive, backup and restore, BC/DR, and primary storage.

Veeam continues to listen to customer and partner feedback and has additional AWS-native backup and recovery enhancements planned for Veeam Backup for AWS and Veeam Backup & Replication in coming months. With even easier data protection and portability across on-premises and AWS cloud environments, Veeam customers will have choice and flexibility of where data lives for availability and cost-efficiencies.

The latest release of Backup for AWS is available in AWS Marketplace.

Customers can deploy the fully-featured free edition, which provides backup of 10 Amazon EC2 instances. Paid options include a pay-for-what-you-use metered offering for standalone AWS backup and DR, or Veeam Platform integrated options that utilize flexible Veeam universal licenses.

“ESG research highlights that protecting applications and data wherever they ‘live’ is a key business and IT mandate. With many mission-critical workloads and data sets now residing on hyperscale cloud platforms, organizations must take a close look at their data protection processes and solutions in those environments in order to ensure recovery SLAs are met across all platforms. Veeam’s strategy to deliver holistic support is further confirmed with these newest capabilities for AWS which also represent a great opportunity for Veeam’s partner eco-system to provide a broader set of solutions to their customers,” said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)

“We moved our on-premises servers to AWS when Covid-19 started and have used Veeam for our backups in the past. We set our backups up in Veeam Backup for AWS in under an hour and were backed up shortly thereafter. Lots of options for backups, easy to setup and deploy. Highly recommended,” said Calvin Larsen, technology director, Neurobrands LLC.

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December 10, 2019 | Press Release