Amazon EC2 Virtual Export Requirements (4040003)

Introduction:

1. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers​•Shrink and grow your capacity as needed​.
2. Amazon EC2 is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS)​.
3. EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications​.
4. EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to create a virtual machine, which Amazon calls an "instance", containing any software desired.

The EC2 Export Job Workflow:

Requirements:

1. Most important - only an EC2 Rapid Recovery Core can perform an  EC2 Export​.
2. Rapid Recovery Core has to be installed in the EC2 cloud for this to work​.
3. You cannot replicate a “normal” agent to the EC2 cloud and export as EC2​.
4. EC2 protected machine(s) are suitable for export only within it's region. ​
5. Customers can protect cloud machines to the cloud core instance – preferred and very expensive​.
6. You can also Replicate a protected machine to an EC2 Core in another region and export within new region​.
7. We use Amazon Web Service API to produce a Virtual Machine Export in EC2’s format.
8. To create the instance, we search the AMI, that is very similar to our Agent machine configuration (OS version, RAM, core number) and use it in the export process.
9. We use native WinAPI IO methods to write\read data on the EBS disks.
10. Only an EC2 protected machine could be exported to a new EC2 virtual machine.
11. We can not perform an export to another region as we do not have access to the other region’s cloud buckets or Amazon Virtual Private Clouds, i.e., if you backup an agent in region1 with a core in region1 and then replicate to a core in region2 you need to create a cloud account in region2 in order to export to region2.