Azure or AWS

[BennyDC]

Hi ,

We are planning to protect our o365 environment with Veeam Backup for o365.
What is the best approach for this.
What is the best Cloud provider AWS or AZURE?
- is there an egress cost between o365 and Azure and/or between o365 and AWS.
- Network wise would there be a faster connection between o365 and Azure as they are both hosted by Microsoft?
- if we need outside the standard setup extra proxies would that change the balance?

Thanks,
Benny

[Polina]

Hi Benny,

During backup, there's no egress between O365 and your cloud-based repositories. VBO proxy reads data from O365 and then stores it directly to object storage of your choice. For storing, the proxy mainly writes the data but there're some reads as well. Therefore, from the cost perspective, placing VBO proxies and repositories within the same region (whatever vendor you choose) is the most beneficial.

Backup speeds might be a bit higher in Azure comparing to other options.

Thanks!

[BennyDC]

Hi Polina,

Thanks for your answer.
Say we have a 8000 users mailboxes and in total mail+one drive + teams 120TB data.
How would the deployment look like. Backup vm + x nr of proxies.

[Mike Resseler]

Hi Benny,

Difficult to say. You can use this calculator to get more insight: https://calculator.veeam.com/vbo

[Mildur]

You can use the Best practice guide for sizing too:
https://bp.veeam.com/vbo/guide/design/sizing/
https://bp.veeam.com/vbo/guide/design/maxconfig

But I prefer the webpage Mike has posted

[BennyDC]

Thanks all for the reply using the calculator