Posted On: May 4, 2023
AWS VSS application-consistent backups now allows customers to take application-consistent backups while PowerShell Logging is enabled. AWS VSS application-consistent backups now incorporates a parallel processing ability that enables its EC2 Windows customers to achieve successful VSS backups in a broader range of environments. With this launch, customers will see improved compatibility between VSS and applications such as antivirus and application monitoring that require PowerShell logging to be enabled.
Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS is a Microsoft technology that allows application data to be backed up while applications are still running, by coordinating between user applications that update data on disk and those that back up applications. AWS VSS application-consistent backups enables customers to take application-consistent snapshots of their Amazon EC2 Windows instances and associated Elastic Block Store volumes. Customers can continue to use the VSS solution on AWS through AWS Systems Manager Run Command or through AWS Backup console.
This new feature will be available at no additional cost. To get started, customers will need to update their AWS VSS distributor package on their EC2 Windows instance to the latest version. For more information, see Install the VSS package in Create VSS-enabled snapshots. To use AWS VSS application-consistent backups through AWS Systems Manager Run Command directly review Create a VSS application-consistent snapshot . To learn more about using AWS VSS application-consistent backups through AWS Backup review Creating Windows VSS backups.