What's supported¶

Afi SaaS backup for Amazon Web Services provides comprehensive protection for AWS EC2 instances, including configuration and data.

EC2 instances¶

EC2 instance types supported for backup¶

Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X instances (both powered on or shut down)
ARM64 and x86_64 instances
Instances with SSD (General Purpose and Provisioned IOPS), HDD, and magnetic volumes. Volume encryption with AWS KMS keys is transparent for Afi and is fully supported.

Backup of instances with ephemeral or Multi-Attach volumes is not supported at the moment.

EC2 instance properties supported for recovery¶

Upon a recovery, Afi fully preserves the original instance configuration (by default), allowing you to override certain properties, if specified.

Currently, the following custom restore parameters are supported:

Image ID (AMI)
Instance profile name
SSH key pair associated with the instance
Subnet and security group configuration for the instance's network interfaces
Encryption settings for the instance's volumes

Volume configurations supported for content preview¶

Volume content browsing is supported for both static (fixed) and dynamic LVM partition schemes, as well as for partitions formatted with EXT4, XFS, or NTFS file systems.

For LVM partition layout, only linear volumes are available for browsing. Striped and mirrored volumes are currently unsupported for volume content browsing, although support for these volumes is planned in upcoming service updates.

Limitations¶

Volume content browsing is not supported for:

Striped and mirrored LVM (Logical Volume Manager) layouts for Linux and LDM (Logical Disk Manager) for Windows