Wasabi App for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Introduction

Wasabi Cloud Storage and Acronis Cyber Protect seamlessly combine to provide comprehensive backups and secure, easy-to-manage, and affordable cloud storage to help businesses manage storage costs and complexity. Together, they offer a cohesive solution that empowers businesses to back up their data directly to Wasabi’s ultra-secure and cost-efficient cloud storage, ensuring unparalleled protection and peace of mind.

Wasabi App for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud has been designed to simplify the workflows for MSPs. It enables the MSPs to easily create and manage Wasabi storage accounts for their customers from within the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud portal. Wasabi App allows the user to provision Wasabi storage accounts in two ways depending on the use-case and partner type.

MSPs can then map the Wasabi storage accounts to their Acronis Customer tenants. Once mapped, the MSP will be able to create Wasabi buckets, create a cloud storage location, and assign it to a protection plan directly from the customer level of the portal.

Key Terms

Control Account: A control account is a Wasabi partner account that manages sub-accounts. It is a contract with Wasabi for a single product and a single payment method.

Channel Account: A channel account is also a partner account that can manage sub-accounts, however it is always associated with a parent Control Account. This model allows flexibility when procuring through Distributors.

Sub-account: A sub-account is an individually provisioned Wasabi storage account.

Wasabi App provides the following features:

Wasabi sub-account management
Channel Account management
Sub-accounts resource usage overview
Sub-account invoicing (generated every 30 days per the billing date of the Control Account)
Usage alerts (defined by Wasabi)
Bucket creation
Bucket usage overview (refreshes every 24 hours)

How to get started

To utilize the Wasabi App, you need to have a paid Wasabi Storage account that has Wasabi Account Control Manager (WACM) enabled. There is no additional cost associated with WACM activation.

If you do not have a Wasabi storage account, click here to signup for a Wasabi trial account or procure it from a Wasabi channel partner. After signing up for your Wasabi account, you can request WACM access from your account representative.
If you already have a Wasabi storage account, contact your Wasabi representative to activate WACM access.

For more information about the Wasabi App for Acronis, please review the following articles or the configuration video.