Posted On: Apr 1, 2022

AWS Backup now enables you to protect VMware’s Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) on VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts, helping you meet your business and regulatory compliance needs. You can use a single policy in AWS Backup to centrally automate data protection and lifecycle management of your on-premises VMware, VMware Cloud on AWS, and VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts environments alongside the 12 AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) that AWS Backup supports.

AWS Backup provides a consistent and fully managed data protection experience for your hybrid VMware workloads. VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts is a jointly-engineered solution with VMware that delivers VMware Cloud on AWS as a fully managed experience to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility with AWS Outposts. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally configure data protection policies for VMware workloads hosted on your managed infrastructure, in VMware Cloud on AWS, and on VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. You can restore your VMware backups to your on-premises data centers, in VMware Cloud on AWS, and on VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts to meet your application data recovery needs.

AWS Backup for VMware is available in the US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka), Middle East (Bahrain), and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. To learn more about AWS Backup for VMware, visit the product page and documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.