New Feature in Vinchin Backup & Recovery 8.0: AWS EC2 Backup

Cloud computing has become an integral part of modern enterprise IT infrastructure. As more businesses migrate workloads to the cloud, ensuring the security and recoverability of cloud-based data has emerged as a paramount challenge.  

AWS EC2 allows users to rent and configure virtual servers with customizable resources like CPU, memory, storage, and networking, supporting various operating systems and software environments for a wide range of applications. Regularly backing up EC2 instances is crucial for data protection and business continuity, enabling swift restoration in case of failures or disasters, thus minimizing downtime and ensuring operational stability.

To address this need, Vinchin Backup & Recovery 8.0now offers seamless backup support for EC2 instances, in which you can directly add your EC2 instances into the backup system to protect them well-roundedly.

Customized Backup Strategies

Leveraging just the access key ID associated with your AWS account, you can effortlessly incorporate all EC2 instances across different regions into the Vinchin backup ecosystem. Comprehensive backup options are provided, including full backups, incremental backups, and differential backups, catering to different business RTO and RPO requirements. You can customize backup schedules based on the workload characteristics of your EC2 instances, enabling on-demand or policy-driven backups. Additionally, backup data can be compressed and encrypted to ensure security during transmission and storage.

Flexible Recovery Options

In the event of data loss or migration needs, Vinchin empowers you with flexibility. Restore entire EC2 instances to AWS with the option to modify critical parameters such as region, VPC, subnet, and security groups. Alternatively, it supports the restoration of EC2 instances or individual volumes from any backup point (including full, incremental, or differential backups), ensuring rapid business recovery. The recovery process supports direct restoration to EC2 instances or even other virtualization platforms, providing diverse recovery destination options to enhance business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. Additionally, the granular recovery feature allows users to precisely restore specific files or directories, further reducing recovery time and resource consumption.

Cloud Service Integration

Vinchin Backup & Recovery efficiently supports Amazon EC2 instance backups, providing one-click protection for critical workloads in the cloud. Furthermore, it seamlessly integrates with Amazon S3, allowing backup data to be automatically archived to S3. This ensures that data is stored securely and cost-effectively, offering a comprehensive cloud data management solution for your EC2 instances, from protection to long-term retention.

Seamless V2V Migration

Breaking barriers between cloud and on-premises infrastructure, Vinchin enables EC2 backups to be seamlessly restored to other leading virtualization platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, and Proxmox. Our solution paves the way for effortless V2V migrations, bridging the gap between cloud-hosted instances and your local storage environments.

Streamlined Infrastructure Management

Our intuitive interface streamlines infrastructure addition, enabling batch selection of instances when configuring backup tasks, which is efficient and ease-to-use, empowering administrators to manage cloud backups with unprecedented agility.

With Vinchin Backup & Recovery v8.0’s imminent launch on May 29th, prepare to elevate your cloud data protection strategy to new heights. Join our upcoming webinar to be among the first to explore these transformative features firsthand and secure your cloud assets like never before. Stay tuned and get ready to redefine your backup and recovery solution with Vinchin.