Excluding instances from synchronization by tagging the instance in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

This topic provides information on how to make selected instances invisible to R‑Cloud. The needs of your environment may require that some instances are not protected by R‑Cloud. For example, your Google Cloud projects may include managed instance groups and employ an autoscaler. To leave some instances unprotected, you can exclude them from synchronization so that they are not visible to R‑Cloud. The invisible instances cannot be assigned policies in any way.

Procedure

  1. Depending on your cloud platform, do the following:

    • For AWS:

      1. In the AWS Management Console, choose the 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 key/value pair:

        Key Value
        hycu‑instance‑sync

        false

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

      3. Repeat the previous step for each additional instance that you want to make invisible to R‑Cloud.

    • For Azure:

      1. In the Azure portal, select the Azure resource group to which the instances that you want to leave unprotected belong.

      2. Select the instance.

      3. Click Assign tags, and then use the following key/value pair:

        Key Value
        hycu‑instance‑sync

        false

      4. Repeat the previous step for each additional instance that you want to make invisible to R‑Cloud.

    • For Google Cloud:

      1. In the Google Cloud Console, choose the Google Cloud project to which the instances that you want to leave unprotected belong.

      2. Within the project, choose an instance and add it the hycu‑instance‑sync custom metadata tag in Google Compute Engine. Use the following key/value pair:

        Key Value
        hycu‑instance‑sync

        false

        Custom metadata tags can be added from the Google Cloud Console, the gcloud command line, or by using the Google Cloud API. For instructions, see Google Cloud documentation.

      3. Repeat the previous step for each additional instance that you want to make invisible to R‑Cloud.

  2. Sign in to the R‑Cloud web user interface.

  3. Select the protection set that includes the same AWS account, Azure resource group, or Google Cloud project as you selected in step 1 of the procedure. For instructions on selecting protection sets in R‑Cloud, see Selecting an R‑Cloud protection set.

  4. In the navigation pane, click Instances Instances.

  5. Click Synchronize Refresh 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.