Excluding instances from synchronization by tagging the instance in AWS

This topic provides information on how to make selected instances invisible to HYCU for AWS. The needs of your environment may require that some instances are not protected by HYCU for AWS. To leave some instances unprotected, you can exclude them from synchronization so that they are not visible to HYCU for AWS. The invisible instances cannot be assigned policies in any way.

Procedure

1. In the AWS Management Console, choose an AWS account to which the instances that you want to leave unprotected belong.

2. Within the AWS account, choose an instance and add it the hycu‑instance‑sync tag in Amazon EC2. Use the following data:

   Key	Value
   hycu-instance-sync	false

   Custom tags can be added from the Amazon EC2 console. For instructions, see AWS documentation.

3. Repeat step 2 for each additional instance that you want to make invisible to HYCU for AWS.

4. Sign in to the HYCU for AWS web user interface.

5. Select the protection set that includes the same AWS account as you selected in step 1 of the procedure. For instructions on selecting protection sets in HYCU for AWS, see “Selecting a HYCU for AWS protection set”.

6. In the navigation pane, click  Instances.

7. Click  Synchronize or wait until the next instance synchronization cycle.

   In the Instances panel, the names of the instances that you excluded from synchronization are not present.