Automate and Protect Your Customers’ AWS Workloads with Cloud Snapshot Manager

With more and more organizations moving workloads to the cloud, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS), a significant new data protection opportunity is opening up for Dell EMC partners. That’s because AWS users need to protect their workload data, and want a way to do this centrally and automatically for all instances.

Introducing Cloud Snapshot Manager

To help you help your customers who are using native AWS snapshot tools to address these data protection issues, Dell EMC developed Cloud Snapshot Manager. Cloud Snapshot Manager is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application designed to safeguard data that’s used or generated by various AWS instances — such as EC2, EBS and RDS — for VMs, databases and storage. It offers a wealth of needed automation features to complement AWS’s own snapshot tools, which makes it a compelling sales proposition. And its subscription model can help provide you with recurring revenue.

As a SaaS solution, Cloud Snapshot Manager can provide your customers with management control, automation and visibility without the cost and burden of buying and managing backup server infrastructure. Designed from the ground up for any size cloud infrastructure, Cloud Snapshot Manager features a highly scalable orchestration engine for managing large numbers of instances and snapshots—from just a handful up to 10,000 or more. It also provides auto scaling, audit logs and reports, so as your customers’ needs grow their AWS data protection can scale along with them.

Another scalable Cloud Snapshot Manager feature is multi-tenancy. With Cloud Snapshot Manager, your AWS-using customers can easily discover and automate native snapshots across multiple cloud accounts and regions based on their specific IT governance policies. They can quickly create new accounts whenever needed or add software entitlement to an existing account. Each Cloud Snapshot Manager account can assign login credentials to multiple users, who can then access the AWS cloud instances associated with that account. This can optimize IT effectiveness across multiple lines of businesses within the organization.

Importantly, Cloud Snapshot Manager users can also set automatic deletion policies on snapshots. This capability enables them to control the proliferation of snapshots and the associated storage costs, which would otherwise grow over time.

Fast, Easy Installation with Set-And-Forget Simplicity

As a turn-key SaaS solution, Cloud Snapshot Manager doesn’t require time-consuming installation, infrastructure management, updates or patching. In fact, a new user can get started by simply logging into their Cloud Snapshot Manager account on the website and activating their subscription. They are then immediately ready to start managing their snapshots.

Cloud Snapshot Manager provides many easy-to-use features via a modern web UI with set-and-forget simplicity. In addition, it offers one-click restores, auto-scaling, automatic functionality enhancements and security fixes. With a powerful policy engine, Cloud Snapshot Manager can help your customers rein in snapshot proliferation by automatically deleting snapshots per retention policies.

Cloud Snapshot Manager is available now in MyQuotes. To learn more about how it can help you help your customers protect their AWS data, plus start recurring monthly revenue for your business, take the following steps:

• Complete the Q3 Cloud Snapshot Manager Accreditation training.
• Visit our new CSM Enablement Center and Inside Dell EMC web pages for relevant marketing and sales content.