The document discusses how the University of Notre Dame uses N2WS Cloud Protection Manager on AWS to backup and recover critical data. Some key points: - N2WS enables centralized backup and recovery on AWS, with the ability to restore individual files or full environments quickly. - The university has migrated 80% of its services to AWS, including Active Directory, databases, and other applications. - N2WS provides reliability, compliance, and cost savings compared to on-premises backup. It helped the university recover from issues like patching errors. - The goal is to move 90% of services to the cloud and close their primary data center for further cost reductions and cloud-first operations.

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Binoy Das, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Sebastian Straub, Systems Engineer, N2WS
Aaron Wright, Systems Engineer, University of Notre Dame
How Notre Dame maintains
uptime on Amazon Web
Services (AWS): A master
class

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 An overview of backup and recovery on AWS
 Using Cloud Protection Manager (CPM) from N2WS to access, protect, and restore
critical data
 How the University of Notre Dame uses N2WS on AWS for data protection and
business continuity
 Q&A/Discussion
Today’s agenda

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Backup and recovery on AWS

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Common backup and recovery challenges
Manual backup
Difficult to manually
backup, especially as
storage needs scale up
Compliance
Meeting compliance
regulations for long-term data
storage and archiving is
difficult to achieve with
traditional backup and
recovery
High cost
Building and maintaining
on-premises storage
hardware is expensive

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Benefits of AWS for backup and recovery
Scalable
Automatically
scales up and
down
Low cost
Allows you
to pay only
for what you
use
Secure
Encrypt data
and tightly
control
access
Easy to maintain
No need to
buy or
maintain on-
premises
hardware
Integrated
Optimize your
storage solutions
by integrating
multiple AWS
services

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Storage on AWS
Highly durable and low-
cost storage service for
archiving small to large
amounts of data
Amazon Glacier
Object storage designed
to store and access any
type of data
Amazon Simple
Storage Service
(Amazon S3)
Network attached
storage volumes for your
virtual servers
Amazon Elastic
Block Store
(Amazon EBS)

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Global infrastructure
Region and number of availability zones New region (coming soon)

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Benefits of APN Partners
Cost-effective
Easy configuration Incremental backup
and block-level
backup
Rapid recovery Policy based
backups
Asynchronous
replication

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Key AWS certifications and assurance
programs

10. Operational backup and disaster recovery
(DR) for AWS
CLOUD PROTECTION MANAGER

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The AWS shared responsibility model

12. Human error
Why you need to protect your AWS
Ransomware
EBS failure
AZ failure
Compliance + data security

13. AWS provides N2WS enhances
The promise of the cloud delivered

14. Cross-region DR
Securely copy backups
between 18 data centers
around the world.

15. Cross-account DR

16. Recover a single file or entire volumes
Restore individual files
without having to restore the
entire instance or mount the
volume.
Use the CPM GUI to browse
through files and folders
and retrieve previous
version of individual files
and folders.

17. Safe during catastrophes

18. Get started
Find us on the AWS Marketplace where we’re top rated, or
request a custom plan and quote from us directly.
Sign up for a fully-functional 30-day FREE trial at n2ws.com/trial

19.  Founded in 2012, product released in 2013
 Top AWS Marketplace solutions
 Headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL
 Development Center in Haifa, Israel
 Cloud-native technologies
 Purpose-built for AWS
 Distributed as an AMI through the AWS Marketplace
A quick overview of N2WS

20. N2WS + AWS can help you with the following
Protect AWS workloads
with snapshot-based
backups.
Save up to 20% of your
technicians’ time using
CPM’s software
automation.
Recover a single file or a
full environment in less
than 60 seconds.
Protect against malicious
or accidental data loss
disaster recovery across
regions or accounts.

21. DEMO

22. University of Notre
Dame

23. About University of Notre Dame
• 176-year-old private research university in South Bend Indiana
• One of the top religiously affiliated schools in the United States
• The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) supports enterprise-
wide computing on campus, including tasks related to university
employees as well as the studies of more than 12,000 university
students.

24. Our Journey to the cloud: vision
● Cloud-first
○ Reduce costs by closing
primary data center
○ Reduce the need for hardware
○ Create a coherent university
cloud presence
○ Improve IT service delivery
● 80% of services have already
been moved to AWS
○ Active Directory
○ IaaS
○ OnBase
○ DegreeWorks
○ Banner (ERP)
○ SSO
○ SAP Business Objects

25. Our journey to the cloud: AWS
● Strategy in migration:
○ 80%+ of services migrated to AWS, lift and shift
● Started small but will grow to over 700 instances
● Two AWS accounts
● Primarily uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) SQL
Database

26. Why back up on AWS?
Resilient Compliant
StandardizedCost-effective

27. Protecting our data on AWS
● N2WS enables Notre Dame to fulfill our objective of providing
a cloud-first service:
○ Centralization of the backup and recovery process
○ An essential layer of security: Ability to recover into other regions/accounts
○ Reduced Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
○ Granularity: Ability to restore a single file
○ Reliability: Solution consistently works for total business continuity
○ One-click deployment from the AWS marketplace

28. Maintaining continuity
● Scenario 1: When patches go bad
○ March 2018: Patch rolled out on a production server
○ Vulnerability discovered
○ Engineers located the snapshot
○ Detached the corrupted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume
○ Manually created new volume from snapshot
○ Attached new Amazon EBS volume to the instance
● Scenario 2: Single-file restore made easy
○ Disaster comes in all shapes and sizes. With N2WS, Notre Dame can recover
anything very quickly, from single files to full restores.

29. Our journey to the cloud: part II
Reduce costs Migrate 90%
services to the cloud
Close data
center

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Q & A

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Next steps and additional
information
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