All news with #backup security tag

🔒 Applying zero trust to the storage layer is no longer theoretical — it is now essential to ensure recovery. The author describes ransomware incidents, including Change Healthcare in February 2024, where attackers deliberately targeted backups and recovery points, exposing storage as a primary attack surface. He recommends three operational principles — control where data is touched, control who and when, and make critical backups immutable — and ties those measures to governance, policy-as-code, and executive outcomes.

🔁 Amazon RDS now supports single-step cross-Region and cross-account copying of snapshots for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora. This new capability eliminates the prior two-step process and removes the need for an intermediate snapshot, helping customers achieve tighter recovery point objectives while reducing storage and operational costs. The feature is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US), and can be used today via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

🔒 AWS Backup now lets you choose whether to include Access Control Lists (ACLs) and ObjectTags when backing up Amazon S3 buckets. Previously, these metadata elements were included for all objects by default; the new option lets administrators include only the metadata required for their recovery or compliance needs. This capability is available in all Regions where AWS Backup for Amazon S3 is offered; review pricing and regional availability on the AWS Backup pricing page.

🧪 AWS announced that Fault Injection Service (FIS) is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. FIS is a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to validate application performance, observability, and resilience under scenarios such as AZ power interruptions and cross-region connectivity failures. Customers can create reusable experiment templates, integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, and generate detailed experiment reports stored in Amazon S3 for audit and compliance needs. This launch expands FIS to 24 regions globally.

🔔 AWS has extended AWS Backup Audit Manager to produce organization-wide, cross-account and cross-Region reports in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). Using an AWS Organizations management or delegated administrator account, you can aggregate compliance and operational backup data across accounts and Regions. The feature centralizes policy enforcement and helps demonstrate adherence to business and regulatory data protection requirements.

🔁 Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports snapshot copy for AWS Local Zones, enabling point-in-time local snapshots to be copied to the parent Region or another Local Zone. The feature is generally available and accessible via the AWS Console, CLI, and SDKs. This capability helps customers meet disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance requirements by storing snapshots in Amazon S3 within the chosen Region or Local Zone.

🛡️ Many organizations rely on SaaS project platforms such as Trello and Asana for daily operations, but native protections and short retention windows often leave critical data exposed. The piece highlights human error, misconfiguration, and targeted cyberattacks as leading causes of loss. It recommends adding a third‑party backup layer and presents FluentPro Backup as a solution offering continuous automated backups, granular restores, one‑click project recovery, and Azure‑backed security to ensure recoverability and auditability.

⚙️ Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Redo Transport Compression, which compresses redo data before it is transmitted to standby databases to reduce network traffic and improve redo transport performance. Because transport is faster, customers can achieve a lower Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Compression and decompression consume CPU on both primary and standby instances, so ensure adequate CPU capacity before enabling. Enable the feature by setting the redo_compression parameter in the instance Parameter Group; it supports mounted and read replicas and requires Oracle Enterprise Edition with Oracle Advanced Compression licensing.

🕒 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports delayed read replicas, allowing you to specify a minimum time period for a replica to intentionally lag behind its source. This configurable time buffer helps protect against human errors such as accidental table drops or unwanted data modifications by preserving a recoverable replica state. In recovery workflows you can pause replication before problematic changes are applied, resume replication to a specific log position, and promote the replica as the new primary to achieve faster recovery than lengthy point-in-time restores.