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Beyond the Managed Control Plane: Protecting and Moving Kubernetes Apps Across AWS with Veeam Kasten

Date: Wednesday, October 21 at 11am PT / 2pm ET

Join us live for a chance to win an Amazon Echo Show 8!*

Managed Kubernetes services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), take control plane operations off your plate. The shared responsibility model has AWS responsible for the cluster and the customer responsible for the application workloads. The managed control plane limits customer access to etcd. Even where you can, an etcd snapshot only captures cluster state. It doesn't give you an application-consistent copy of your workloads, persistent volumes, secrets, and configuration. "Stateless" apps also depend on more than they seem to, including ConfigMaps, Helm releases, operators, custom resources, and the external data services they connect to. Losing any of these can turn an outage into a rebuild.

In this joint session, AWS and Veeam will cover:

  • Why "stateless" EKS apps still need data protection. What a managed control plane does and doesn't cover, and where etcd snapshots fall short in production.
  • Application mobility with Veeam Kasten. Moving and restoring whole applications across Availability Zones and AWS Regions for disaster recovery, migration, and cluster upgrades.
  • Veeam Data Cloud Vault as a backup target. Sending immutable, encrypted backups off-site to fully managed storage built on Amazon S3, with no infrastructure of your own to run.
  • ROSA and Kasten. Extending the same protection and portability to OpenShift workloads on AWS.

You'll leave knowing how to keep enterprise applications available and recoverable, wherever you run Kubernetes on AWS: EKS, EKS Anywhere, AWS Outposts, or ROSA.

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About the presenters:

Matt Slotten, Principal Solutions Architect, Cloud-Native Technical Partnerships, Veeam

Matt brings over 17 years of experience to his role as Principal Solutions Architect at Veeam Kasten. He has a background in cloud computing, DevSecOps, and IT infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, virtualization, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and web application development. Matt is passionate about learning, leveraging, and building open-source technology software projects both at work and in his free time.

Principal Solutions Architect, AWS  

Ryan Niksch is a Partner Solutions Architect focusing on application platforms, hybrid application solutions, and modernization. Ryan has worn many hats in his life and has a passion for tinkering and a desire to leave everything he touches a little better than when he found it.
*One Amazon Echo Show 8 will be awarded to one eligible attendee who attends the live event for a minimum of 51% of the total presentation. Only valid business e-mail addresses of current employer will be considered. Only eligible for one entry per individual, not per e-mail address. Must be a US resident. No substitutions allowed. False and/or deceptive entries or acts shall render entrants ineligible. No purchase is required. This offer is not valid where prohibited by law. If there is any reason to suspect abuse, fraud, or breach of these terms and conditions, we have the right to void the prize.

Date: 10/21/2026

Time: 11:00 AM PT

Duration: 1 Hour


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