Clumio Service Limits

This article highlights current Clumio Service Limits. These limits apply to Clumio operations including, but not limited to, the backup and restore services. We are constantly evaluating and improving our service limits. If you have any questions please reach out to [email protected].


Note: We publish service limits for only generally available features inside Clumio.

These limits pertain to only AWS today. Contact Clumio support if you have specific questions about other datasource limits.


Service Limits

Inventory service limits

The Clumio Inventory service gathers all the information in the customer environment to enable the service to protect an asset. Inventory service will merely present information in the Clumio UI, what exists in the customer environment(s). For protection limits, please see the relevant data source section below.

Inventory service limits capture the upper limit of the Clumio Inventory service. This includes, but is not limited to, EC2 instances, RDS instances, AWS tags, etc.ย 

AWS EntityClumio Limit
EC2 Instances20,000
EBS Volumes20,000
RDS Instances1,300
S330 billion objects
AWS Tags38,000

AWS Connection Limits

Clumio Connection Service offers customers the ability to integrate with their AWS accounts. The following section covers the limits associated with connecting accounts in to Clumio. These limits apply to all deployment methods.

These limits apply to how many different AWS Accounts and Regions can be connected into Clumio. So, below, you can have (number of accounts X number of regions) a total of account region combination connected into Clumio. You will see them as individual environments under the AWS>Environments tab.

OperationClumio Limit
Number of Accounts connectedNo Hard Limit
Number of Regions connected16

AWS EBS Limits

AWS EntityClumio Limit
Max EBS Volume Size16TB
EBS Concurrent Restores (per AWS Connection)5 tasks
EBS Concurrent Backups (per AWS Connection)30 tasks

AWS Limits here

AWS EC2 Limits

AWS EntityClumio Limit
EC2 Size16TB x 15 EBS Volumes attachedย 
EC2 Concurrent Restores (per AWS Connection)5 tasks
EC2 Concurrent Backups (per AWS Connection)30 tasks

AWS Limits here

AWS MS SQL on EC2 Limits

AWS EntityClumio Limit
Maximum database backup size30 TB
MS SQL Concurrent Backups/Restores (per MS SQL host/EC2 instance)10 tasks

Microsoft recommends a maximum of 35 databases per SQL instance.

AWS RDS Limits

AWS EntityClumio Limit
Maximum RDS Instance Sizeย 16TB-64TB (Dependent on DB engine)
RDS Concurrent Restores (Per Data Plane)5 tasks at a time (5 in queue)
RDS Concurrent Rolling Backups (Per Data Plane)5 tasks at a time (5 in queue)
RDS Granular Backups (Per Data Plane)5 tasks at a time (5 in queue)
  • Rolling Backups for RDS instances are full backups for any instances with a provisioned size under 500 GB.
  • Beyond 500 GB, Clumio performs an incremental backup using a snapshot preserved in the source account.

AWS Limits here

AWS DynamoDB Limits

AWS EntityClumio Limit
Maximum parallel backup tasks50 Tasks (Securevault Standard)
Maximum parallel restore tasks10 Tasks (Securevault Standard)
Max Backup Size50 TB/table (Securevault Standard)
Max Restore Size50 TB/table (Securevault Standard)
GRR - CSV output5 Million Records

AWS Limits here

AWS S3 Limits

AWS EntityClumio Limit
Max single object restore size (from Cold tier)5TB
Number of buckets that can be added in a PG in a single Go via UI25
Max number of objects backed up in a single micro-backup80K
Max number of objects backed up by continuous backup in one hour20M
Number of local containers for a single bucket with continuous backup enabled100
Number of buckets added to a single PG with continuous backup enabled100

AWS Limits here

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