About: Cloud Storage
Last modified: Wednesday May 31, 2023.
You can configure your Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras and the cameras attached to your cloud-connected Alta Cloud Connectors™ so that your video recordings are held in Alta Cloud Storage™ as well as locally. The Alta Cloud Storage feature is enabled from the
With Cloud Storage configured, your video data is moved directly from your Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras and Alta Cloud Connectors to the remote cloud storage.
Ensure that your firewall rules allow outbound connections to Cloud Storage. See Reference: Ports required by Alta Cloud Connectors for details.
By storing your important video data to the cloud, you can choose to increase your storage retention period over that available to your Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, as well as providing you with a fallback in the event of, for example, the microSD cards (Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras) or the disks in your Cloud Connectors becoming damaged, corrupted, or being stolen.
You can choose the information to be stored to Alta Cloud Storage, for example, you can back up:
- Alarms
- Anomalies
- Interesting video footage
- Saved clips of Video view
- Uninteresting video footage
Specify the times that you want these backups to occur.
Your selected video information can be stored in Alta Cloud Storage and kept for 30 days by default, or longer if you purchase licenses with extended retention periods.
Currently, backups to Cloud Storage are limited to eight concurrent backup streams per Cloud Connector. This could lead to issues if you are trying to back up all video for all cameras connected to your Cloud Connector, regardless of having sufficient bandwidth available on your network.
Alternatively, you can purchase a license to enable you to save your selected video information to your own preferred cloud storage provider.
