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Unitrends Backup for AWS
AWS Backup for Comprehensive Data Protection
Protect your essential AWS workloads with reliable backup and recovery from Unitrends. Get enterprise-level protection and disaster recovery to ensure continuity for your AWS cloud workloads.
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Ensure Backup and Recovery of AWS Workloads
Eliminate single-cloud risks with Unitrends backup. Our enterprise backup software deploys seamlessly as an AWS virtual appliance instance to protect your critical data. Powerful disaster recovery capabilities enable you to quickly recover systems and data in AWS or in the Unitrends Cloud to keep your business running no matter what.
Complete AWS Backup and Disaster Recovery
Unitrends brings 30+ years of data protection innovation and expertise to tackle the world of AWS cloud backup. A fully integrated offering, Unitrends deploys a virtual appliance to protect AWS workloads with the ability to replicate to the Unitrends Cloud for resilient, redundant disaster recovery.
Simple Deployment, Unified Management
Unitrends Backup readily deploys from the AWS marketplace as an EC2 virtual machine image. A quick setup wizard guides you through key deployment steps so you can protect your critical data instantly. Manage your appliance through its local console or integrate with UniView for unified management.
Robust Automation, Flexible Capabilities
Combining AWS and the integrated backup and recovery capabilities of Unitrends virtual appliances ensures continuity for your critical cloud-based workloads. Replicate data from your AWS-based appliance to a secondary AWS appliance, local appliance or the Unitrends Cloud for disaster recovery that meets your needs.
Cost-Effective, Transparent Pricing
Save 30% or more with Unitrends compared to other vendors. Adaptable licensing enables you to shift your spend to where your data moves, whether on-prem, in public clouds or SaaS applications. Leverage the Unitrends Cloud for redundancy and disaster recovery at a straightforward, predictable cost with no hidden fees.
Why Unitrends Backup for AWS?
Eliminate the guesswork around cloud disaster recovery. Unitrends certifies that your recoveries work and that your SLAs can be achieved. See firsthand why our customers have confidence in the face of any disruption!
Get Pricing & DetailsKey Features of Unitrends Backup for AWS
Designed for ease of use, Unitrends Backup software for AWS is a prepackaged virtual appliance readily deployed in the AWS cloud. We've partnered with AWS to give you unparalleled resilience, multilayered security and confidence you can always get to your data.
Replication to Unitrends Cloud
Replicate backups outside of AWS infrastructure to the secure, immutable Unitrends Cloud for safekeeping. Invisible to attackers targeting AWS, the Unitrends Cloud ensures your data is always available, even when AWS is down.
Centralized Management
Manage everything from a single pane-of-glass, UniView! UniView provides UI and API integration across Unitrends' best-of-breed backup solutions from local backup to public cloud backup, SaaS backup and endpoint backup, for a seamless management experience.
Intelligent Alerts
BackupIQ intelligent alerts cut through the noise by enabling you to define thresholds for problems with backups or replication that put your SLAs at risk. The engine helps you prioritize any issues to ensure compliance and successful future recoveries.
Multi-Layered Security
Hardened Linux appliances secure backups outside the Windows attack surface. All backup data is encrypted in-flight and at-rest. The portal is protected by 2FA, and role-based access control (RBAC) enables you to customize users'scope within the backup environment.
Recovery Assurance
Unitrends performs regular, application-level DR runbook testing to certify workloads and SLAs (RPO & RTO) as part of our Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS). Reports are delivered to admins after each test, so you'll know in advance the impact of an outage.
Versatile Recovery
Recover on your terms! Restore files, applications and volumes directly from your virtual appliance back into AWS. Replicate backup copies to a secondary location or the Unitrends Cloud for redundancy and disaster recovery spin-up.
Ransomware Protection
Proprietary ransomware ransomware detection runs advanced behavioral analytics against every backup to alert admins to early signs of a ransomware infection. Suspected backups are flagged, and alerts are delivered to admins immediately for further investigation.
Customizable Retention
Adhere to industry regulations, compliance mandates and more with easy-to-configure retention policies. Adjust specific retention policies down to the protected asset level (VM, server, database) and meet the unique needs of your organization.
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Public cloud workloads are susceptible to data loss and downtime. Ensure resilience for your AWS workloads with a backup and recovery solution that replicates data outside of AWS and stores it recovery-ready in a cloud invisible to attackers.
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Schedule a DemoFrequently Asked Questions About AWS Backup
AWS Backup is designed for safeguarding data stored in the AWS Cloud. It’s a methodical approach to protect and recover data to ensure business continuity. The objective is to minimize downtime and data loss by creating secure, recoverable copies of your databases, VMs, and servers. This practice is crucial for disaster recovery plans, ensuring that your organization can quickly resume operations after an incident.
AWS offers native backup solutions tailored to its cloud ecosystem, enabling users to back up their AWS cloud workloads. While these native tools provide basic functionality, they may have limitations in terms of flexibility, comprehensive coverage across different environments, and advanced features.
This is where third-party solutions like Unitrends come into play, offering enhanced capabilities (including 3rd party cloud disaster recovery), greater control over backup and recovery processes, and support for a broader range of environments beyond AWS, making them a more robust option for comprehensive data protection.
Security and compliance are a shared responsibility between AWS and their customers. AWS maintains the responsibility of securing the cloud, protecting the infrastructure that runs AWS cloud services including hardware, software, networking and facilities.
The customer maintains responsibility for security in the cloud, including data, platforms, applications, identity and access management, and more. This means it’s up to the customer to implement and manage backups, ensuring their workloads and data are adequately protected against loss or corruption.
For security and privacy reasons, AWS Support does not have visibility or access to customer data. If you do not have backups of your Amazon Machine Image (AMI) data, AWS Support cannot recover it for you. It is not possible to recover a deleted or deregistered AMI, which highlights the importance of proactive backup strategies to mitigate the risk of irreversible data loss.
With Unitrends, AWS backup and restore operations are streamlined to ensure data availability and integrity. The process begins with configuring backups within the Unitrends interface, specifying what AWS workloads need protection. Unitrends then automates the backup process, securely storing data copies.
For restoration, users can quickly identify the required backup version and initiate the recovery process, minimizing downtime. Unitrends enhances AWS’s capabilities by providing a more user-friendly, reliable, and comprehensive backup and recovery solution, ensuring your AWS data is always protected and accessible.