Backup

AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx file systems in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region.

Public Preview: Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2)

Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2) preview brings enterprise-grade long-term retention to PostgreSQL.

Support for backing up and restoring workloads managed via the legacy appliance management console is deprecated.

Key milestones for this deprecation include the following:

AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Logically air-gapped vaults are a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and AWS Organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data…

Note: These fixes and updates are available starting with Backup and DR release 11.0.17.496.

These fixes are not rolled out to the 11.0.16 release; we recommend upgrading the backup/recovery appliance to version 11.0.17 to receive these updates. Security Bulletin – Appliance:

You can now use auto-protection policies and resource labels to automatically protect Compute Engine instances and Persistent Disks at scale in Backup and DR.

This feature allows you to automatically assign a backup plan to qualifying resources across projects based on user-defined labels. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Automate resource protection.

You can now monitor restore jobs for Filestore instances directly from the Backup and DR Jobs page in the Google Cloud console.

When you trigger a restore on a Filestore instance, Backup and DR automatically tracks the job progress and status.

AWS Backup now supports protecting more than 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets per account

AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of more than 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets per account, matching the Amazon S3 bucket quota configured for your account.

Backup vault support for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instances encrypted with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) is generally available (GA), providing…

Backup vault support for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instances encrypted with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) is generally available (GA), providing immutable and indelible storage with enforced retention.

AWS Backup adds cross-Region and cross-account backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups across AWS Regions and accounts. You can copy your FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups to another AWS Region, another AWS account, or both, using policy-based backup plans or on-demand copy jobs.

AWS Backup adds cross-Region backup copy and logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon DocumentDB in nine additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon DocumentDB backups across AWS Regions and storing them in logically air-gapped vaults in nine additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka), Europe (Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), Africa (Cape Town), and Israel…

Backup vault support for Filestore instances encrypted with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) is now generally available (GA).

When you back up Filestore instances to a CMEK-enabled backup vault, the backups are encrypted using the backup vault CMEK key.

Beginning November 1, 2026, Backup and DR will automatically apply a project-level lien to any project containing a backup vault with backups protected by…

Beginning November 1, 2026, Backup and DR will automatically apply a project-level lien to any project containing a backup vault with backups protected by enforced retention.

AWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon Neptune to three additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon Neptune is now available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich).

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now supports direct access to backup data

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now supports creating S3 Access Points, providing immediate read-only access to backup data using standard S3 APIs without initiating a restore.

AWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support to six additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults are now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary).

AWS Backup extends restore testing support to seven additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup restore testing is now available in seven additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary).

AWS Backup enhances Amazon S3 backup copy performance

AWS Backup now executes S3 backup copy operations up to 8x faster for buckets with millions of objects and low change rates between backup copies through enhanced change tracking.

AWS Backup support for Amazon EKS is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region

AWS Backup support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region.

Public Preview: Snapshot backup for SQL Server in Azure VMs

Azure Backup now supports snapshot-based backup for SQL Server running on Azure Virtual Machines.