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From fragmented to fortified: Motability Operations’ journey to a unified backup strategy with AWS

Motability Operations runs the UK’s Motability Scheme and provides vehicle leasing services to approximately 900,000 disabled customers. The organization leases cars, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs, delivering an all-inclusive package with insurance, maintenance, and breakdown coverage that supports independence and mobility for customers across the country. Motability Operations manages diverse AWS workloads across […]

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Data preservation with AWS Backup legal holds

Customers globally, especially in regulated industries, require centralized protection and demonstrable compliance for their application data. Auditors often require customers such as broker-dealers, securities exchanges, and stock brokerage firms, to prove compliance with SEC, FINRA, and CFTC requirements by providing an assessment report from an industry-recognized entity with additional disclosure that they have capabilities to […]

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Backup and restore Amazon FSx for OpenZFS with AWS Backup

On May 17, 2022, AWS Backup announced support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, adding to the supported AWS services across compute, storage, and databases. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS customers can now leverage centralized, policy-based management of their data protection and compliance across multiple AWS services to simplify and scale their operations. FSx for OpenZFS snapshots […]

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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 […]