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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting PaaS assets
  4. Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets
NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

Prerequisites for protecting PaaS assets

NetBackup lets you discover, protect, and restore PaaS assets across different cloud platforms for a variety of assets. This section details the supported platforms and databases.

Supported cloud providers

NetBackup enables you to protect PaaS assets with the following cloud providers:

  • Microsoft Azure

  • AWS

  • GCP

Supported databases for different providers

The following table lists the supported databases for each cloud provider.

Table: Supported databases by PaaS

Providers

Supported databases

Microsoft Azure

PostgreSQL, SQL Managed Instance, SQL, MariaDB, Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and MySQL.

The following components are not supported:

Azure SQL Managed Instance - Azure Arc

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Azure PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) server group and Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale

AWS

RDS SQL, RDS PostgreSQL, RDS MySQL, RDS MariaDB, RDS Aurora MySQL, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for Oracle, Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB, RDS Custom for Oracle, RDS Custom for SQL, AWS DocumentDB, and AWS Neptune.

GCP

SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and BigQuery.

Supported platforms

This section details the supported platforms for primary and media servers.

Table: Supported platforms for PaaS

NetBackup server

Supported platform

Primary

RHEL, SUSE, and Windows

Media

RHEL

Storage server

Universal share on underlying MSDP block storage or MSDP-Cloud storage STU

Required cloud provider permissions

The credential that you use to add the cloud providers must have the required permissions and privileges assigned, as mentioned in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Supported ports

Here are the supported ports for different PaaS databases. Note that AWS Neptune and the AWS RDS workloads support custom ports along with the default port.

Table: Supported ports for PaaS

Database PaaS workload

Supported ports

Azure SQL Server

1433

Azure SQL Managed Instance

1433

Azure MySQL

3306

Azure PostgreSQL

5432

Azure MariaDB

3306

GCP PostgreSQL

5432

GCP MySQL

3306

AWS DynamoDB

NA

AWS RDS PostgreSQL

5432

AWS RDS MySQL

3306

AWS MariaDB

3306

AWS RDS AuroraDB Postgres

5432

AWS RDS AuroraDB MySQL

3306

AWS RDS SQL server

1433

AWS RDS for Oracle

1521

AWS DocumentDB

27017

AWS Neptune

8182

RDS Custom for Oracle

1521

RDS Custom for SQL

1433

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

443

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

10255

GCP BigQuery

NA

GCP SQL Server port

1433

Amazon Redshift

5439

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