Category: AWS Backup

As VMware customers navigate the imperative to modernize their virtual environments, the need for reliable and cost-effective data protection has become paramount. Traditionally, evaluating data protection solutions has involved intricate calculations around software licensing, storage costs, and operational expenses. AWS Backup offers VMware customers a simpler, more transparent path forward. By eliminating upfront software fees […]

Enterprise users use AWS Backup for centralized data protection as part of a defense-in-depth architecture. Its features generally fulfill users’ data security and regulatory requirements, but there is demand for additional resiliency against ransomware incidents. Meeting the recovery objectives often involves creating multiple copies of data backups, developing and maintaining custom code for backup processes, […]

Large enterprises run mission critical applications on AWS. These applications can have hundreds of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Backing up Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes is a requirement for these applications for use cases such as disaster recovery, application recovery, rollback, compliance and audit. Stringent data consistency and integrity are […]

Customers run thousands of VMware virtual machines on premises, in VMware Cloud on AWS, and VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. They use AWS Backup to centrally manage data protection of these VMware environments. Customers, who initiate an Amazon EC2 restore from an AWS Backup for VMware recovery point, encounter a situation where there is no […]

Organizations meet business and regulatory requirements by having visibility and control over backup environments. You want a streamlined solution to continuously monitor, detect, and track policy drifts across your backup deployments at scale. This need is driven by the growing complexity of AWS environments, the proliferation of data across diverse AWS services and regions, and […]

Many users rely on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to run their business critical Microsoft Windows-based workloads on AWS. These critical applications often span across multiple EBS volumes attached to EC2 instances. To make sure of the integrity and recovery of such vital workloads, users […]

The threat of ransomware has placed data protection front and center as a top priority for all businesses. The Sophos State of Ransomware Report 2023 reported that 66% of organizations were impacted in 2022 with a median ransomware payout of $400,000 (average pay out of $1.54 million). With the median recovery cost of using backups […]

Many organizations are protecting important business data against disasters like fires, floods or ransomware events. Proper backup and disaster recovery strategies can help safeguard critical data and ensure business continuity in a disaster scenario. Maintaining normal operations in a disaster recovery situation can save time and money. AWS services like Amazon S3 and AWS Backup […]

Business continuity and disaster recovery plans include having a backup strategy for application workloads, whether on-premises or in Cloud. Furthermore, organizations need efficient methods to actively monitor their data protection posture and detect any failure for remediation while meeting the required recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) for the business. One efficient […]

Customers expect database solutions to be both scalable and equipped with robust recovery mechanisms to address unexpected data disruptions. Unintentional transactions or system failures can impact the business. Recovering to a specific point-in-time with point-in-time-recovery (PITR) is indispensable for some customers with critical workloads or compliance requirements AWS Backup simplifies protecting Amazon Aurora databases with […]