A short-lived VM or cloud instance spun up for particular tasks and deleted when done: restores to Azure or Google Compute Engine, certain Linux verification, and object storage retention and health checks.
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Terms in this definition
- Google Compute Engine
Google Cloud's compute service. Physical machines, cloud instances and VMs can be restored there, optionally via a helper appliance.
- LAMP
Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (Perl and Python also fill the P): a widely used open-source stack for web applications whose database is frequently Azure Database for MySQL.
- General-purpose v1
The older storage account kind (
Storage), which lacks access tiers, Archive and premium file shares and retires on 13 October 2026. Converting to ZRS requires first upgrading to GPv2, a one-way change.
Related terms
- Amazon EBS
AWS's block volumes. If you restore to EC2 using a helper appliance, Veeam attaches a new blank volume per disk to that appliance and fills it with the backed-up data.