Veeam Backup for AWS
AWS backup without the complexity. Stay resilient against outages, cyber threats, and everyday mistakes.
- Immutable, air-gapped backups defend against attacks
- Predictable, all-inclusive pricing with no surprises
- Coordinated, fast recovery across your AWS estate
Overview
Native, secure protection for Amazon Web Services
Veeam Backup for AWS delivers native, policy-based protection for reliable recovery from accidental deletion, ransomware, and other data loss scenarios. An API-first approach, always-secure backups, and full- and file-level restore ensure resilient protection that is easy and cost-optimized, freeing up time and resources for strategic IT priorities.
Challenge
AWS provides a robust platform to create and deploy applications without maintaining your own infrastructure. However, under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, your applications and data remain your responsibility to secure and protect. Native tools alone often fall short on portability, long-term retention, and cyber resilience.
Resilience built for the cloud
faster recovery for cloud workloads
immutable, encrypted, air-gapped by default
unified platform across hybrid and multi-cloud
Benefits
Automated, Secure Protection for AWS
Elevate resilience for Amazon Web Services and go beyond native tools with Veeam's powerful policy-based protection. Reliably recover from accidental deletion, ransomware, and other data loss scenarios with immutable backups and full- and file-level restores. An API-first approach ensures resilient protection that is easy to use and cost-optimized.
Layered Security
Immutable, encrypted, and air-gapped backups isolate data from production to reduce attack paths.
Powerful Recovery
Broad coverage of fast, reliable recovery options, in and out of the cloud.
Predictable Cost
All-inclusive pricing covers service, storage, and support with no surprises.
Key Capabilities
Veeam Backup for AWS Key Features
Logically Air-Gapped
Logical separation of backup data from production accounts.
Immutable Storage
Always-immutable, encrypted backups that cannot be altered or deleted.
Secure Access
Least-privilege IAM and role-based access controls (RBAC).
Recovery Flexibility
Restore across accounts, across regions, or even outside of AWS.*
Full- and File-Level
Full instance or granular recovery, either in place or as new.
Automated Backup
Policy-driven discovery and protection with customizable RPOs.
Cost-Optimized
Backup lifecycling to lower-cost object storage with compression.
Simplified Recovery
Wizard-driven, automated, and self-service workflows.
Hybrid Ready
Operationally consistent management across hybrid and multi-cloud* environments.
* When combined with Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam-Supported AWS Services
Protect compute, databases, file storage, and object storage across your AWS estate.
Amazon EC2
Amazon EBS
Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EFS
Amazon FSx
Amazon Redshift
Amazon VPC
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 Glacier
AWS Outposts
How It Works
How Veeam protects Amazon Web Services data, from setup to recovery.
1. Connect
Enter your AWS account details and let Veeam automatically discover the workloads you want to protect.
2. Protect
Set wizard-driven, policy-based backups by workload or tag, aligned to your RPO and retention needs, with data stored in the AWS region you choose.
3. Recover
Restore full instances or individual files in seconds, across accounts, across regions, or outside of AWS when combined with Veeam Backup & Replication.
Deployment Options
Embrace data portability. Veeam provides flexibility when choosing the best deployment model for your organization.
Backup Software
Own, control, back up, and recover all your data regardless of where it resides, including within AWS, with a software-only delivery model.
Backup Service
Unblock cloud teams with Veeam's Backup as a Service, so they can protect their data while staying focused on managing AWS services.
Managed Services
Offload data protection to a managed services expert, with partners delivering service levels ranging from hands-on to fully managed.
Packaging Options
Check out the table below to assess the benefits and control levels of each delivery model, from software-only to managed services.
| Backup Software Veeam Data Platform |
Backup Service Veeam Data Cloud for AWS |
Managed Services BaaS for AWS |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS-native Data Protection | Available Across All Deployment Options | ||
| Control of Architecture | Fully customizable by end user | Solution designed end-to-end by Veeam | Varies by partner |
| Control of Infrastructure | Fully customizable by end user | Infrastructure managed by Veeam | Varies by partner |
| Immutable Backups | Available Across All Deployment Options | ||
| Policy-Based Automation | Available, with some mapping required by end user | Fully automated wizard | Available, with varying degrees of implementation by partner |
| Unified Across Clouds/Data Center | Developed uniquely for hybrid and multi-cloud | Standalone deployment for AWS | Varies by partner |
| Service Level Management | 24x7 Support | 24x7 Support | Services ranging from hands-on to fully managed |
Frequently Asked Questions
Veeam Backup for AWS is Veeam's self-managed, cloud-native backup for Amazon Web Services that you deploy in your own AWS account. You control the backup infrastructure, your data is stored in an AWS region of your choice, and you have full control of creating backups and completing restores. It delivers native, policy-based protection so you can recover reliably from accidental deletion, ransomware, and other data loss scenarios.
Veeam protects a broad range of AWS workloads. These include Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx, Amazon Redshift, Amazon VPC configurations, Amazon S3, and Amazon S3 Glacier. Coverage spans compute, databases, file storage, and object storage so you can protect your entire AWS estate from one solution.
Yes. Immutable, encrypted, and logically air-gapped backups are standard, not add-ons. Backups cannot be changed, deleted, or encrypted by attackers, and they are isolated from your production account to reduce attack paths. Least-privilege IAM and role-based access controls further protect your backup data.
Veeam supports fast, flexible recovery with full-instance and file-level restore options, and it can recover cloud workloads up to 7x faster. You can restore across accounts and regions, and, when combined with Veeam Backup and Replication, restore outside of AWS as well.
Veeam Backup for AWS uses predictable, all-inclusive pricing that covers the software, immutable storage, and support. Costs stay consistent month to month. As an authorized Veeam reseller, VMBackupWorks can scope the right package for your environment and provide a quote.
Yes. Veeam offers operationally consistent management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup and Replication integrates AWS protection into the central Veeam Backup and Replication console, giving you unified management across on-premises, AWS, and other clouds.