HotAdd Restore Process for Amazon EC2 Instances Including Amazon VPC Resources

When Amazon VPC protection is enabled, the HotAdd restore process includes the following stages:

1. Create empty EBS volumes.

2. Attach EBS volumes to access node.

3. Restore data to EBS volumes.

4. Detach volumes from the access node.

5. Check and validate the network entities such as VPC, subnet, security groups and NICs. If any entities are deleted, re-create them.

6. Attach the volumes:

   • If the restore is to an existing instance, attach the volumes to the existing instance.

   • If the restore is to a new instance, create a new instance with the restored network configuration and attach the restored EBS volumes.