Additional Information on “Cost Estimation” in Veeam Backup for AWS

Based on the instances included in a policy, settings, and schedules, cost estimation provides infrastructure cost estimates for the policy's operation.

The calculations are based on:

• Sizes of the instances.
• The location of the destination of the policy:
  • Snapshots
  • Backups (region of S3 bucket for storing backups)
• Built-in constants for:
  • Change rates daily (3% daily)
  • % of total Instance capacity that is in use (70% of the provisioned size)
• Schedule for the instance.
• Types of storage consumed by the instance snapshots and backups.
• Calculations are done based on the policy running regularly and becoming ‘mature’ in that retention operations are being performed.

When optimizing costs, some things to understand:

• Are there unexpected network traffic charges due to out-of-region or out-of-AWS data transfers?
  Adjusting policy settings for repository selection may help reduce these costs. For example, selecting a repository that is in the same region as the source Instances being backed up by the policy.
• Are there high Snapshot charges?
  Adjusting the snapshot retention may help reduce these charges.
• The overall frequency of backups?
  More frequent policy scheduling can raise infrastructure costs for the policy.
  
• Cost estimation does not estimate restore costs.