AWS Backup

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…

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.

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…

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.

AWS Backup adds OTP verification for Multi-party approval on logically air-gapped vaults

AWS Backup now requires one-time password (OTP) verification when approvers vote on Multi-party approval actions for logically air-gapped vaults.

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup supports Amazon S3 continuous backups

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is now available for Amazon S3 continuous backups. You can now scan your S3 continuous backups for malware and identify clean points in time across your entire backup timeline for safe recovery.

AWS Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backups

AWS Backup for Amazon EKS now completes cluster state backups up to 10x faster. This performance improvement enables you to back up Amazon EKS clusters with a large numbers of namespaces and Kubernetes resources significantly faster, reducing backup windows from days to hours…

AWS Backup expands support for Amazon Aurora PITR to six Regions

AWS Backup support for Amazon Aurora Point-in-time Recovery (PITR) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Thailand, Taipei, New Zealand), Canada West (Calgary) and Mexico (Central).

AWS Backup adds Amazon Redshift Serverless and Aurora DSQL support for AWS Organizations backup policies

AWS Backup now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless namespaces and Amazon Aurora DSQL clusters as resource types in AWS Organizations backup policies. Organization administrators can now define backup policy rules that directly target these resource types across member accounts.

Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups across AWS opt-in Regions

Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups across opt-in Regions (AWS Regions that are disabled by default) for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS.

AWS Backup extends Amazon FSx support to 5 additional AWS Regions and expands cross-Region and cross-account copy to 14 AWS Regions

AWS Backup is expanding support for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and Amazon FSx for Lustre with two regional enhancements.

AWS Backup expands support for Amazon Redshift Serverless to seven Regions

AWS Backup support for Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in seven additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka, Hyderabad, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland), Europe (Milan), and Africa (Cape Town).

AWS Backup expands support for Amazon DocumentDB to 12 Regions

AWS Backup now supports Amazon DocumentDB in 12 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Thailand, Osaka, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Stockholm, Spain, Zurich), Africa (Cape Town), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Mexico (Central).

AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon EKS

AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault now supports Amazon EKS. 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 loss event.