IMPORTANT NOTE: FOR BEST PERFORMANCE AND MOST UPDATED FEATURES, PLEASE USE THE NEWLY RELEASED CLOUD PROTECTION MANAGER, STANDARD 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 Standard Edition allows you to manage an entire, multi-region, EC2 backup operation, with up to 25 EC2 instances of any type, unlimited size of EBS storage attached to these instances and additional 2 TiB of RDS databases or EBS volumes not attached to instances, from a single server using up to 3 users & 3 AWS accounts. Other 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 (automatic deletion of old snapshots) * Secure & encrypted communication * Pull / Push alerts.