Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery 19.14 AWS Deployment Guide

Preparing your environment

Before you deploy the Cyber Recovery solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensure that you meet the prerequisites and prepare your environment.

1. Accept DDVE and CIS jump host terms and complete the subscriptions:
   1. Go to AWS Marketplace: Dell PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE) at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-2x2p43yvgswtm and accept DDVE terms.
   2. Go to AWS Marketplace: CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Benchmark - Level 2 at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07XY9KLJJ and accept CIS jump host terms.
2. Before you deploy the Cyber Recovery solution on AWS, create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) key pairs. For instructions, see Amazon EC2 Key Pairs.

   The key pairs provide secure logins in the AWS VPC to access the:

   • Jump host
   • Cyber Recovery management host
   • DDVE

   NOTE:Dell Technologies recommends that you create three key pairs, one for each instance.

   When the EC2 instances are deployed, use the key pairs to access the instances. Ensure that you have access to the key pairs.

3. Ensure that you have network knowledge about how to connect to the AWS VPC:
   • VPC in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) format

     The minimum CIDR block range for a Cyber Recovery AWS VPC is /27, which provides 32 total IP addresses. This minimum allows each of the subnets that are created to meet the AWS minimum CIDR range of /28, which provides 16 IP addresses per subnet.

   • Subnets in CIDR format
     • Subnets must be within the VPC range
     • The minimum subnet is a /28 subnet, which provides 16 addresses
     • The maximum subnet netmask is a /16 subnet, which provides 65,534 addresses
   • IP address of the production workstation that connects to the jump host in AWS
4. If there are five VPCs in the region in which you want to deploy the Cyber Recovery software, remove a VPC or request an increase from AWS.
   By default, AWS allows you to create five VPCs per region.
5. Ensure that you have access to the Cyber Recovery and Amazon Machine Image (AMI).