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What's supported

Afi SaaS backup for Amazon Web Services provides comprehensive protection for AWS EC2 instances and PostgreSQL RDS/Aurora databases, 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

Databases

Afi provides backup and recovery for PostgreSQL databases, including single-AZ RDS instances and multi-AZ (clustered) RDS and Aurora deployments. Afi database backup captures the database’s configuration, schema, and data, and delivers full-fidelity recovery as well as table-level data export as CSV. The backup implementation guarantees strong consistency at the database level.

To ensure fast and convenient data access for review or recovery, Afi lets you browse table data and search within a table by primary key value.

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Support for other AWS database engines is coming in the next product updates.