# AWS Outposts

You can use Commvault to protect EC2, RDS, and EKS instances running in AWS Outposts.

Commvault components can be deployed on AWS Outposts, including high-availability configurations for the CommServe, MediaAgent grids, and the access node groups.

AWS Outposts is an on-premises deployment of AWS services, infrastructure, and operations that provides hybrid cloud capabilities.

For more information about AWS Outposts, go to the AWS Outposts documentation site.

## Key Benefits

- Extend intelligent data management to AWS Outposts-hosted data.

- Protect latency-sensitive applications and store backup data on-site for rapid recovery.

- Ensure data residency needs are met for AWS Outposts backup data.

- Easily migrate between AWS region and AWS Outposts with Commvault automation.

- Extend your Disaster Recovery landscape with failover/failback between AWS region and AWS Outposts, and vice versa.

## Supported AWS Outposts Solutions

- AWS Outposts rack

- AWS Outposts Servers 1U, 2U

## Supported Features

You can use Commvault to perform the following operations for EC2, RDS, and EKS instances that run in AWS Outposts:

- Streaming backup and recovery to Commvault cloud, disk, or tape libraries.

- Storage and network optimization (deduplication, compression).

- Changed-Block Tracking (CBT) backups of EBS volumes.

- Amazon cloud-native snapshot protection and recovery.

- Application-consistent protection.

- Recovery of full instance, volume, or individual files/folders.

- Sharing of snapshots across AWS regions and accounts.

- Workload auto-discovery and protection (by tag, region, zone, instance).

- End-to-end encryption of data from Outposts to backup storage.

## Supported Use Cases

- Intelligent data management across all AWS regions and on-premises locations.

- Backup and recovery of EC2, RDS, and EKS instances from streaming backups.

- Retention of optimized backup copies on cloud, disk, and tape media per with business data residency needs.

- Backup and recovery of EC2, RDS, and EKS instances from EBS snapshots.

- Migration of EC2, RDS, and EKS workloads from AWS region to on-premises AWS Outposts and back.

- Migration of on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to AWS Outposts using Commvault VM conversion.

- Running Commvault components such as the CommServe, MediaAgents, and access nodes on AWS outposts for low latency or data residency needs.

- Failover of Commvault CommServe, MediaAgent and access node capability between AWS Outposts and region.

- Perform Disaster Recovery of EC2 instances and hosted databases (Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Oracle RAC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2) between AWS Outposts and region.

## Supported Services

- Amazon EC2 instances

- Amazon EBS volumes

- Amazon RDS instances (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

- Amazon EKS containers

- Amazon S3

Commvault supports Amazon VPC extensions and Local Gateway (LGW) as a means to access your AWS Outposts or on-premises infrastructure.

## Unsupported Services

- Amazon EMR clusters

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