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Plakar Control Plane is a self-hosted backup management platform built on open-source Plakar, the open backup engine enabling resilience as code for teams preparing for inevitable breach.
Deployed as a virtual appliance in your own AWS account, your backup data never leaves your environment. Connect your providers through inventories to surface unprotected assets, protect cloud-native resources agentlessly via native AWS APIs, add lightweight agents for on-premises and hybrid workloads, and manage scheduling, policies, and restores from a single web interface. All data is encrypted client-side with keys you exclusively control, zero trust by default.
Overview
Breach is no longer a risk. It is a certainty. Ransomware, AI-accelerated exfiltration, and compliance mandates (NIS2, DORA, HIPAA) have made cyber-resilience a board-level requirement. Yet legacy backup tools force a tradeoff between encryption and efficiency that makes complete coverage cost-prohibitive, and SaaS alternatives route your data through someone else's infrastructure.
Plakar Control Plane closes that gap. It is a self-hosted backup management system built on top of open-source Plakar, deployed as a virtual appliance in your own AWS account, so your backup data never leaves your environment. It adds the tooling teams need to run reliable, auditable backups at scale: a full web interface, centralized scheduling, inventory and resource management, and real-time visibility into your protection posture.
At its core is Kloset, Plakar's immutable, encrypted deduplication engine. Kloset strips redundant data at the source before it reaches Amazon S3, reducing backup storage by up to 90% on fully encrypted data and minimizing cross-region egress fees. Complete coverage becomes achievable: every database, instance, volume, and workload protected, not just the critical 20%.
Inventories sync your providers automatically and surface unprotected assets across accounts and regions. Protect cloud-native resources agentlessly via native AWS APIs, or deploy lightweight agents for on-premises and hybrid workloads. All data is encrypted client-side with keys you exclusively control, and snapshots are immutable and tamper-evident. Recover granularly by browsing snapshots like a local filesystem and restoring only what you need. Open source, reviewable cryptography, no proprietary data format.
Highlights
- Advanced Backup Cost Optimization: Leverage high-ratio source-side deduplication to strip away redundant data before it reaches the cloud. This architecture significantly reduces your backup storage footprint on Amazon S3 and minimizes expensive cross-region network egress fees.
- Flexible Hybrid Deployment: Protect cloud resources with an agentless approach by leveraging native AWS APIs. For on-premise or legacy assets, easily deploy remote agents to pipe data directly into your secure AWS environment for centralized management.
- True Data Sovereignty: Enforce a mandatory zero-trust security model where all data is encrypted on the client side using keys you exclusively control. Your backups remain completely opaque and inaccessible to cloud providers or unauthorized third parties at all times.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/TB |
|---|---|---|
Plakar Control Plane | Volume pricing per Terabyte (TiB), amount of source data protected. Unlimited copies. | $0.00000001 |
Dimensions summary
You pay for Plakar Control Plane based on the amount of source data you protect, measured per Terabyte (TiB). This is usage-based volume pricing, so your cost scales with how much data you back up, not the number of copies you keep. You can make unlimited copies of protected data without added per-copy charges. The software is self-hosted in your own AWS account, deployed as an AMI, and only consumption metrics reach the vendor for billing. Larger commitments may qualify for private pricing.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
Billing measures the amount of source data you protect, counted per Terabyte (TiB). This is the original data volume across your protected resources, such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and databases. Copies do not add to this measure. Deduplication shrinks what is stored and transferred, but the source volume drives your charge.
No. Charges are based on source data volume per Terabyte, not on copies. You can make unlimited copies without added per-copy fees. Because only changed data is stored, backing up hourly costs the same as daily. Copies stored outside AWS may still incur separate storage or egress fees from those providers.
The software is self-hosted in your AWS account and deployed as an AMI. Your backup data never leaves your environment. Only consumption metrics needed for billing reach the vendor. These metrics report the source data volume you protect, which determines your per-Terabyte charge.
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All fees are non-refundable. Subscriptions are billed for the agreed commitment period; cancellation prevents future renewal but does not generate a refund. Exceptions may be granted solely for proven billing errors or material breach by Plakar as defined in our General Terms.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Summary: We are proud to introduce the Technology Preview of Plakar for AWS. This release is specifically designed for developers, cloud architects, and early adopters who want to experience the future of hybrid resilience. While this is a preview build intended for testing and development environments, it is feature-complete regarding the core architecture, shipping with the full foundations of Plakar Enterprise.
What is Inside: This version goes beyond the standalone Open Source agent. It deploys the complete orchestration layer designed for complex, cross-cloud environments. You get immediate access to the advanced capabilities that define our Enterprise offering:
- Unified Orchestration: Manage multi-store replication and cross-cloud workflows from a central console.
- Advanced Security: Test our built-in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and secret management integration (Vault) to secure your backup operations. The Kloset Engine: Leverage our core storage engine for deduplicated, encrypted, and immutable snapshots that are browsable instantly without full restoration. Important Note: This release is a Developer Preview. It is optimized for functional testing, integration verification, and architecture validation. We invite you to deploy it, break it, and share your feedback to help shape the final robust release.
Get Started: Deploy your instance today and see how Plakar transforms static backups into queryable, zero-trust assets.
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Usage instructions
Accessing the Instance via SSH: Connect to the instance at the OS level using SSH with the username plakar and the Amazon EC2 key pair you selected or created at instance launch.
Initial Setup of the Plakman Control Plane Once the instance is running, complete the initial configuration through the web-based setup wizard:
Retrieve the Public DNS of your instance from the AWS EC2 console. Open a browser and navigate to: http://<instance-public-dns>
Note: Use HTTP, not HTTPS. TLS is not supported during the bootstrap process and will be configured as part of the setup.
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