Case Study: Best Friends Animal Society secures life-saving pet data and saves $42,000 with Veeam

Veeam and AWS help Best Friends Animal Society keep pets alive

Best Friends Animal Society, a national no‑kill advocacy organization, relies on data and predictive analytics to move and place animals where they’re most likely to be adopted. Its Kanab, Utah technology hub stores life‑saving veterinary applications and diagnostic systems, but a single ISP fiber link and a costly, flood‑prone colocation DR site left critical data at risk and violated the 3‑2‑1 backup rule while costing $42,000 per year.

Best Friends expanded its Veeam deployment to back up on‑premises systems and tier copies to Amazon S3 using Veeam Cloud Tier and Veeam Direct Restore to AWS, eliminating the colocation expense and enabling fast restores to other sites or EC2. The change strengthened DR/BC, met the 3‑2‑1 standard, saved $42,000 to fund an additional S3 data lake for deeper predictive analytics, and helped protect the data that supports thousands of adoptions each year.

Best Friends Animal Society

Brent Bain

Lead Cloud Engineer