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📢 AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx for Lustre, NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, and Windows File Server in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This launch enables centralized, policy-based backup management for FSx file systems alongside other supported AWS resources. Users can create scheduled backup plans, apply retention rules, and store backups in encrypted vaults, then restore file systems as needed. The capability helps address business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance from a single service.

🛡️Signal released version 8.30, finishing the rollout of its encrypted backups across Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. The update introduces on-device local backups for iOS and desktop and harmonizes Android backups to a single cross-platform format. Hosted and local backups remain end-to-end encrypted and require recovery keys, while hosted backups include a rotating supplemental key for added protection.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in logically air-gapped vaults, enabling immutable, encrypted backups that can be shared across accounts and Regions. These vaults lock backups by default and support AWS-owned or customer-managed keys for encryption. Administrators can target FSx ONTAP backups to an air-gapped vault via the console, CLI, or SDKs, and share access using AWS RAM or Multi-party approval for secure recovery. Direct restores from the sharing account are supported once available, reducing recovery overhead.

🛠️ Microsoft addressed a known issue that caused the built-in File History backup to fail after installing September 2026 security updates. Affected systems experienced FileHistory.exe crashes, "Reconnect your drive" alerts despite attached drives, and missing previous file versions. The vendor says the fix is included in the September preview update for Windows 11, with broader availability on Patch Tuesday (October 13) for users who defer optional updates. Microsoft previously also issued out-of-band fixes for other September update regressions.

🔒 Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention via event holds that start on a future triggering event, enabling WORM protection that begins when a contract closing, audit completion, or similar event occurs. You can apply event holds to individual objects, set them as a bucket default, or scale them with S3 Batch Operations, while new IAM and bucket policy condition keys let you control who can set or release holds and enforce duration limits. CloudTrail logs hold operations and S3 Inventory reports hold status; the feature is available in all AWS Regions at no extra charge and has relevant regulatory assessments.

🔒 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.