Have Veeam and Azure. What's next?

[mikegodwin]

I have Veeam B&R which is backing up VMs at our corporate office. I also have some servers running on Azure already. So I have Veeam and I have Azure. I can setup a VPN tunnel and backup/replicate to a Windows VM on Azure like normal. But I am reading that Veeam Cloud Connect can backup to Azure without a VPN tunnel. What do I need to get from where I'm at to backing up or replicating to Azure?

[Gostev]

You have the ideal solution at the moment. Veeam Cloud Connect is a solution for service providers and large, distributed enterprises - for anything else, it is an overkill (there's much unneeded complexity coming from multi-tenancy and scalability to deal with).

[mikegodwin]

So we should stick with the VPN and backup/replicate as normal to Azure?

[Gostev]

Sure. You already have the VPN, and you must maintain one to be able to access your Azure workloads anyway - so there is really no reason to seek for a VPN-less solution.