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Streamline search and item-level recovery with AWS Backup

Recovering data after a disaster or a ransomware incident headlines today’s news. But in the day-to-day, you are more likely to recover a file from a directory than to restore an entire data set. However, doing so without being able to search and restore the specific items you need can be tedious and time-consuming. It’s […]

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Enhance resource selection in AWS Backup Policies in AWS Organizations

In today’s digital landscape, businesses rely on consistent and secure backups for data protection and disaster recovery (DR). A centralized backup policy enables organizations to enforce uniform data protection standards across departments and workloads, helping to maintain compliance and minimize risks. In the cloud, organizations use backup policies to manage data protection from a central […]

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Protecting your critical Amazon EBS volumes using AWS Backup

Enterprises use block storage such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for mission-critical workloads because it provides high performance, low latency, and reliable data access needed for demanding applications like databases, ERP systems, and real-time analytics. As EBS volumes often contain critical application data, configurations, or operating system files, backing up and restoring these […]

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A guide to budgeting for AWS Backup in VMware virtual environments

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 […]

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Building cyber resiliency with AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault

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, […]

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How DXC creates application consistent EBS Snapshots for Linux

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 […]

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Attach an Amazon EC2 key pair to an AWS Backup restore of a VMware virtual machine

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 […]

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Streamline and automate compliance monitoring and reporting with AWS Backup Audit Manager

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 […]

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Application-consistent backup for Windows application on Amazon EC2 with AWS Backup

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 […]

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Optimizing AWS Backup costs

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 […]