AWS continues to dominate the cloud infrastructure services market. It achieved a worldwide market share of over 31 percent in the 2015 fourth quarter, according to Synergy Research Group, in a February 2016 report. The growing AWS community presents a lucrative opportunity for solution providers offering cloud services. As more and more organizations move workloads to the cloud, solution providers must follow the data. They can do this by offering cost effective business solutions that streamline the user experience.

For example, managing images of instances in an AWS EC2 environment today is a very cumbersome labor-intensive process that requires developers and administrators to write extensive scripts. And we all know that manual scripting incurs a host of deficiencies: These include inadequate quality assurance (virtually it’s is nonexistent); nominal documentation (if any); and no maintenance or support. And when the author changes jobs, the script needs to be rewritten. This presents a new business opportunity for solution providers to present a system that improves the experience and helps customers manage their environments better, and enables them to reduce their overall costs.

Asigra announced today the availability an automated management solution for snapshots in an AWS EC2 environment. Asigra AWS Snapshot Manager is an enterprise-class data protection solution for EC2 machines with EBS disks. It leverages AWS APIs to create machine images across multiple AWS regions. Also, it helps automate and manage the backup environment via schedules, retention rules, notifications and reports. The application can handle multiple AWS accounts with EC2 instances in any AWS region.

If offers an easy to use, scalable and flexible policy-based management console. You can easily create schedules, set retention management policies to optimize snapshot costs, and apply application- consistent backup for mission critical applications in Windows, all within in seconds. Asigra AWS Snapshot Manager offers role-based permission access to control user rights. It also provides feature-rich reporting and notifications to alert staff about status completion of scheduled activities.

Asigra AWS Snapshot Manager will support both Windows (available now) and Linux (coming soon).

The software and self-service co-branding is free for solution providers. To learn more about Asigra AWS Snapshot Manager, go to the AWS Marketplace, email us at [email protected], or contact us at 416.736.8111 ext. 1453.

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