I liked the product until.....
What do you like best about the product?
VEEAM for AWS was easy to setup and get running. After it was running it worked without incident and was easy to use for our backups as well as DR backups to S3. The product also is affordable UNLESS you use Marketplace assets (see dislikes). I would recommend this product for any customer using standard AWS AMI's but I would encourage caution if someone uses licensed Marketplace assets (see dislikes) as you may get surprised by additional charges.
What do you dislike about the product?
I noticed one flaw that I saw as a major issue. Unfortunately VEEAM doesnt seem to want to address it. This issue will affect anyone using a Marketplace license for a system (Red Hat, Suse, etc). These licenses tag their primary disk with the license. When VEEAM creates a backup it creates a snapshot and then a new volume from the snapshot, mounting it on a worker instance of your sizing. Because it mounts the volume of the system being backed up and because that volume is tagged as a licensed system you will be getting charged an additional hourly marketplace charge for that licensed system. If you have a large amount of these systems this can get VERY expensive as these will also be hourly charges outside of your license contract.
I really wish VEEAM would look at this issue but so far their response was "this is working as intended." So now I must look elsewhere.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VEEAM Backup for AWS managed all of our internal backups as well as DR dumps to S3.
I liked the product until.....
So to begin the product worked as expected and for the most part was affordable until I noticed one flaw that I saw as a major issue. Unfortunately VEEAM doesnt seem to want to address it. This issue will affect anyone using a Marketplace license for a system (Red Hat, Suse, etc). These licenses tag their primary disk with the license and VEEAM creates a snapshot, then a volume from the snapshot to perform a backup. Unfortunately this means that you are going to be paying hourly licenses for each of these Marketplace assets which can get VERY expensive depending on how many you have.
I really wish VEEAM would look at this issue but so far their response was "this is working as intended." So now I must look elsewhere.
Just an FYI. I did warn VEEAM I would be submitting these reviews if they didnt want to look at the issue as I dislike writing bad reviews. They chose not too.
