Why protecting OVHcloud Public Cloud matters
Public Cloud instances are often provisioned, scaled, and torn down quickly. That speed makes them easy to run and just as easy to lose track of. OVHcloud runs the underlying infrastructure, but it does not discover, secure, or recover your data for you.
- No built-in inventory discipline: instances created by and or by automation can drift out of sight, making it hard to know what’s actually running, let alone what’s protected.
- Access credentials are scattered by default: API keys and application credentials used to manage a Public Cloud project are often stored inconsistently across scripts, tools, and team members.
- No independent recovery path: without a snapshot stored outside the project, there is nothing to restore from if an instance is lost, corrupted, or deliberately destroyed.
- A single point of failure for a lot of infrastructure: because entire fleets of instances can live in one project, a compromised project can affect everything running in it at once.
Security and Compromise
Access to an OVHcloud Public Cloud project is controlled by API credentials tied to the account or application managing it. If those credentials leak or permissions are too broad:
- Project-wide impact: an attacker with API access can affect every instance in the project, not just one system.
- Ransomware and data loss at the instance level: compromised instances can be encrypted, deleted, or exfiltrated in a single coordinated action.
- Compromised secrets compound the problem: if the credentials used to manage instances are the same ones exposed in a breach, there is no clean way to regain control.
- No recovery without a snapshot: without a backup stored independently of the project, there is no way to undo the damage, only to rebuild from scratch.
Plakar mitigates this by keeping OVHcloud snapshots encrypted end-to-end and stored outside the Public Cloud project itself, so a compromised project doesn’t put its own backup history at risk.
How Plakar protects your OVHcloud Public Cloud environment
Plakar integrates with OVHcloud Public Cloud in four ways:
- Inventory: connect to a Public Cloud project and automatically discover the resources running in it such as compute instances and object storage, keeping that inventory synchronized as resources are created or removed.
- Secret provider: manage the secrets used to access your OVHcloud resources directly through Control Plane, backed by OVHcloud’s own secret store, instead of keeping credentials scattered across scripts and tools.
- Source Connector: capture a snapshot of a compute instance and store it in an encrypted, deduplicated Kloset, independent of the Public Cloud project it runs in.
- Destination Connector: restore a snapshot back into its original project, a different Public Cloud project, or a freshly provisioned instance.
Instead of relying on OVHcloud’s own platform resilience, Plakar gives you an independent, verifiable, and encrypted backup history for the Public Cloud infrastructure your business runs on.
