All news with #backup security tag

🔒 Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports copying backups within and across AWS Regions and across trusted accounts in your AWS organization. This capability lets you store secondary backup copies in different Regions or accounts for improved business continuity, data protection, and compliance. Backups remain secure, incremental, and durably stored across Availability Zones, and you can copy both new and existing backups in all Regions where the service is available.

🔔 AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups across AWS Regions and accounts. You can copy FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups to another AWS Region, another AWS account, or both using policy-based backup plans or on-demand copy jobs. Copies can be managed centrally and automated across your organization with AWS Organizations. This capability is available in all commercial Regions where both services are offered.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports cross-Region copies and logically air-gapped vaults for Amazon DocumentDB in nine additional Regions including Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Israel. You can copy backups using backup plans or on-demand copy jobs to meet disaster recovery, continuity, and compliance needs. Logically air-gapped vaults provide immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys. Share vaults for recovery via AWS Resource Access Manager and protect access with multi-party approval.

🔒 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports customer-driven backups and restores for InfluxDB 2 and 3 engines. You can trigger one-time on-demand backups, schedule up to four recurring backup configurations per resource with custom frequency and retention, and restore either to a new resource or overwrite an existing one via the Console, CLI, or API. The first backup is full and subsequent backups are incremental, and KMS-managed keys are preserved for encrypted resources.

🛈 AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now supports creating S3 Access Points to provide immediate read-only access to backup data using standard S3 APIs without performing a restore. You can create an access point for an S3 recovery point and read data with operations like GetObject, HeadObject, and ListObjectsV2. Access points apply to snapshot and continuous recovery points, work with vaults (including logically air-gapped vaults), and support shared recovery points across accounts. While an access point exists the recovery point is protected from deletion. This capability is available in select AWS Regions and can be managed via the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports logically air-gapped vaults for Amazon Neptune in three additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). These vaults are immutable, locked by default, and encrypted with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys. You can copy backups across accounts and Regions, share vaults for recovery using AWS RAM, and require multi-party approval to protect access during account compromise.

🔒 The July 26–27 coordinated cyber activity against more than 30 Minnesota community water systems targeted operational technology, disrupting remote control and forcing manual operations in some places. Advisories from CISA and vendors document exfiltration of PLC project files and recovery procedures that assume operators possess current offline project backups. The article emphasizes immediate, low-cost countermeasures: verify offline, versioned project archives, reconcile SIM-equipped devices via carrier invoices, restrict integrator remote access, and test time-to-manual recovery.

🔒 Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling customers to replicate file systems between separate AWS accounts. EFS Replication keeps an up-to-date replica of file systems in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region of your choice, supporting business continuity, multi-account disaster recovery, and compliance. Customers can configure replication via the Amazon EFS Console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, or APIs for streamlined, automated synchronization across accounts.

🛡️ AWS Backup restore testing is now available in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). The capability automates periodic restore tests for supported storage, compute, and database resources, letting you create plans that select recovery points, run scheduled restores, and measure completion against recovery time objectives. This helps organisations evaluate recovery readiness and meet regulatory and business continuity requirements. To start, use the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs and consult the documentation for supported Regions and pricing.

🔒 AWS Backup now offers logically air-gapped vaults in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). These vaults provide immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys. You can back up directly to these vaults, copy backups across accounts and Regions, share via AWS Resource Access Manager, and use Multi-party approval to protect access during account compromise. Use the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs to get started and consult the documentation for region and feature details.

🔧 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports the Amazon EBS volume initialization rate to accelerate restored volume performance during drills and recoveries. When DRS creates volumes from snapshots, data loads from Amazon S3 in the background and uninitialized blocks can show slower I/O; setting a volume initialization rate on your DRS-managed EC2 launch template lets DRS apply that rate automatically at recovery. This preserves performance for I/O-intensive workloads and is retained across template updates; if the rate cannot be applied, DRS still completes the recovery to avoid blocking operations. Support is available in all Regions where the EBS initialization rate is offered, and charges apply per GB based on snapshot size and your chosen rate.

🔄 Amazon Redshift Serverless now preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations automatically when restoring a namespace from a snapshot or recovery point to the same serverless namespace. Previously, restores marked integrations as failed and required manual recreation, causing reconfiguration delays and potential ingestion gaps. With this improvement, integrations resume operating after restore completion, simplifying disaster recovery and testing workflows and reducing administrative overhead. This behavior applies only to restores within the same serverless namespace and is available in all regions where Redshift Serverless is offered.

🔁 This update announces availability of Cross-Region Automated Backup replication for Amazon RDS in four additional AWS Regions, enabling automated backup replication between specified region pairs. The feature replicates snapshots and transaction logs to a destination Region to support point-in-time restores and near-real-time recovery. It supports multiple RDS engines and can be configured via the RDS Console, AWS SDK, or CLI. Organizations can achieve Recovery Point Objectives within minutes by using this replication.

🔒 Report Fraud received 323 ransomware reports from UK organisations between April 2025 and March 2026, with SMEs accounting for over half of victims. Financial losses rose about 50% year-on-year to approximately £270,000 per incident, though police warned this likely understates the true cost. Authorities and experts urge firms to adopt proactive measures like regular backups and strong access controls to reduce risk and impact.

🚀 AWS Backup now performs S3 backup copy operations up to 8x faster for buckets with millions of objects and low change rates by using enhanced change tracking. This removes the need to scan all objects in the destination account or Region, reducing copy time across accounts and AWS Regions. The improvement records object events as they occur and applies automatically to new cross-account and cross-Region copy jobs at no additional cost in supported Regions.

🔒 Google Cloud announces general availability of cross-region backups for its Backup and DR Service. This release decouples backup destinations from source regions, enabling backups to be stored in distinct geographic regions to improve resilience and meet data residency requirements. The capability is available now for Compute Engine instances, Disks, and Filestore, with Cloud SQL and AlloyDB support coming soon.

🛈 Microsoft released optional preview update KB5095093 for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, installing build 26100.8737 and introducing new features and bug fixes. The update offers a new Point-in-Time restore capability that captures VSS-based restore points for up to 72 hours and simplifies rollback of the OS, apps, and files. It also fixes a Recycle Bin filename confirmation bug and brings improvements across Secure Boot, Netlogon, File Explorer, Bluetooth, Widgets, accessibility, and networking.

🔁 Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports on-demand replication to and from AWS opt-in Regions, enabling incremental point-in-time snapshot transfers beyond default-enabled Regions. This feature simplifies disaster recovery, cross-account replication, and lower-latency global access while leveraging FSx for OpenZFS’s snapshots, cloning, and high throughput. Available wherever FSx for OpenZFS is offered, replication carries no extra FSx charge; standard inter-Region data transfer fees apply.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, providing fully managed, policy-driven data protection and recovery for EKS clusters. The service includes automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies. Customers can protect entire clusters, namespaces, or individual persistent volumes without agents, replacing custom scripts or third-party tools.

📣 Amazon Redshift now charges manual snapshot storage based on unique data blocks stored across snapshots rather than the full size of each snapshot. This change applies to Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift RG instances and reduces costs for customers who keep multiple manual snapshots. The billing model automatically applies to both existing and new manual snapshots in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where these services are available. Customers can take more frequent snapshots to improve RPOs without incurring proportional cost increases.