Backing up and restoring Amazon EC2 data

To protect Amazon EC2 data, first add an account for your EC2 instances in IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus, and then create jobs for backup and restore operations for those instances.

To add an EC2 account to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, access keys are required. Access keys are long-term credentials for an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user or the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account root user.

For information about how to create an IAM user with access keys and the permissions that are required for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, see Creating an AWS IAM user.

For increased security, is recommended that the AWS account root user is not used for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. For more information about the root user, refer to the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide.

EC2 data is stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots rather than the vSnap server. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus manages these snapshots for backup and restore operations.

Ensure that your EC2 environment meets the system requirements in Hypervisor (Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware) and cloud instance (Amazon EC2) backup and restore requirements.