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Rolland Miller

Author: Rolland Miller

Rolland Miller is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars after serving overseas in the United States Marine Corps. He cannot help himself but to helicopter-parent his teenage children (which they really appreciate). Rolland is also a 20-year storage and data protection veteran that has helped launch a number of products and innovations in the data protection space while working at startups. At AWS, Rolland is the Global SA lead for AWS Backup.

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Enhance the security posture of your backups with AWS Backup Vault Lock

When dealing with backups, data managers frequently ask, “how do I prevent my backups from being accidentally or maliciously deleted?” or “what can I do to enhance protection against ransomware?” In highly regulated industries, WORM* (write-once-read-many) compliance is required for backups and archives. WORM compliance means immutability and an immutable backup helps in the recovery […]

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Amazon CloudWatch Events and metrics for AWS Backup

Customers who use AWS Backup frequently ask, “How do I know if my backup job has failed?” or “How can I be proactively notified of a change to my backup vault settings?” With the recent integration of CloudWatch Events for AWS Backup, we can now deliver a real-time stream of events that describe changes to […]