IMPORTANT NOTE: FOR BEST PERFORMANCE AND MOST UPDATED FEATURES, PLEASE USE THE NEWLY RELEASED CLOUD PROTECTION MANAGER, FREE TRIAL AND BYOL EDITION, VERSION 1.8.0 (HVM AMI) AVAILABLE ON THE AWS MARKETPLACE, instead of this 1.5.0 PV AMI. Cloud Protection Manager (CPM) is an Enterprise-class, AWS-snapshot-based, backup-and-recovery solution for the EC2 environment. CPM allows you to automate, control and maintain the backup and recovery of critical instances and volumes, set RPO objectives, improve the disaster recovery plan and introduce retention management policies to better control the backup operation costs. CPM BYOL Edition is a special edition, addressing requirements not available by other CPM editions, and requiring a license key from N2W Software. CPM key features include: * Flexible, scalable backup policies & schedules for EC2 instances, EBS volumes & RDS * EC2 instances & volumes recovery to a different AWS region (Disaster Recovery support) * Rapid recovery of EC2 instances, EBS volumes & configurations, in minutes * Live & consistent backup of applications, using scripts (Linux) or VSS (Windows) * Automatic policy-based retention management (for automatic deletion of old snapshots) * Secure & encrypted communication to/from the CPM Server * Pull / Push alerts.