All news with #bcdr tag

🔒 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 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 Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now recovers AWS-based workloads faster by skipping unnecessary preparation steps for source servers running on Amazon EC2. This optimization can reduce recovery time by up to 65% for Windows and up to 40% for Linux, while still automatically applying networking, drivers, and licensing. Administrators can enable faster recovery across an account or on a per-server basis and change settings as needed. The feature is available in all Regions offering AWS DRS at no additional cost.

🔧 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.

🔧 Azure reframes resiliency beyond simple availability metrics to emphasize sustained operation, recoverability, and trust under real-world constraints. The platform combines zone-first design, data protection, and cyber recovery with observability and automation to help customers meet sovereignty and regulatory needs. New tooling like Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager and the Resiliency Agent shift guidance to executable, IaC-driven remediation.

🛡️ Microsoft will enable the Windows settings backup and restore tool by default on Microsoft Entra-joined and Entra hybrid-joined enterprise devices when they upgrade to Windows 11 version 26H2. The feature, introduced as opt-in at Ignite 2024 and GA in August 2025, previously required admins to turn it on after installing the September 2025 cumulative update. Default-on applies only to eligible devices outside DMA-regulated regions and not in sovereign cloud environments, and explicit admin policies via Intune or Group Policy still take precedence. Restore remains disabled by default and requires explicit admin configuration.

🔒 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.

🔔 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch introduces three new execution blocks: Amazon Aurora serverless scaling, Amazon Aurora provisioned scaling, and Amazon Neptune global database failover. These blocks automate database scaling and failover for multi-Region workloads, eliminating manual steps that add recovery time. They support cross-account orchestration so a single plan can coordinate operations across multiple accounts and Regions.

🚀 Today AWS adds durability to Amazon ElastiCache, allowing workloads that need microsecond read latency but cannot tolerate data loss to run on ElastiCache. The feature stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones using a Multi‑AZ transactional log for fast failover, recovery, and node restarts. Two durability modes—synchronous and asynchronous writes—let you trade off zero data loss with millisecond write latency or microsecond write latency with potential brief data loss.

🔧 The next generation of AWS Resilience Hub is now generally available, offering platform engineering and SRE teams a centralized console to assess and strengthen workload resilience. It introduces a three-level application model, automated dependency discovery, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting. Integration with AWS Organizations enables central policy definition and posture monitoring across accounts and regions, and existing customers can migrate at their own pace.

🚦 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch adds a Lambda event source mapping execution block to automate coordinated failover of event-driven streams across Regions. The block enables or disables Lambda event source mappings for Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams, MSK, and SQS to prevent duplicate processing. Customers can chain a disable block before an enable block, or run plans in ungraceful mode for impaired Regions. Native cross-account support lets a single plan span multiple AWS accounts.

🚀 Amazon has expanded Aurora DSQL single-Region clusters to five additional AWS Regions: Hong Kong, Mumbai, Singapore, Stockholm, and Sao Paulo. The service offers serverless, distributed SQL with virtually unlimited scalability, high availability, and minimal infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides fast distributed reads and writes to simplify resilience and scaling for always-available applications. It is now available across 18 AWS Regions and is eligible for the AWS Free Tier.

🔒 On May 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET, BleepingComputer will host a live webinar titled From phishing to fallout: Why MSPs must rethink both security and recovery with Austin O'Saben and Adam Marget of Kaseya. The session examines how AI-driven phishing, business email compromise, ransomware, and SaaS compromise are reshaping the threat landscape for managed service providers. Attendees will learn why prevention and recovery must operate together and how SaaS backups and a formal BCDR plan can reduce downtime and data loss.

🔒 Modern ransomware campaigns routinely target backup infrastructure before launching encryption, leaving organizations without viable recovery despite having backups. The article details an attack sequence — initial access, credential theft, lateral movement, backup discovery and destruction, then encryption — and identifies recurring failures like weak isolation, overprivileged credentials, lack of immutability, and untested restores. It recommends identity separation, network segmentation, immutable storage, continuous monitoring, and regular recovery testing, and highlights Acronis Cyber Platform as an integrated example that combines backup, immutability, and threat detection to reduce complexity and improve resilience.

🔒 CISA released new guidance called CI Fortify to help critical infrastructure organizations prepare to operate through crises and conflicts and continue delivering essential services while under cyberattack. The guidance centers on two emergency capabilities: Isolation — proactively disconnecting from third-party dependencies and operating without reliable telecommunications — and Recovery — rapidly restoring compromised systems while isolated. CISA urges organizations to begin investing now, test recovery plans, and practice local and manual operations to maintain a baseline of continuity.

🔒 BleepingComputer and Kaseya will host a live webinar on May 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT examining how modern attacks — led by AI-driven phishing and brand impersonation — are outpacing traditional defenses. The session explains why many MSPs segregate security and backup functions, creating gaps that threat actors exploit after initial compromise. Attendees will learn how to combine prevention, detection, and rapid recovery with SaaS backups and a robust BCDR strategy to minimize downtime and data loss.

🔔 AWS Backup now supports Amazon Aurora point-in-time recovery (PITR) in six additional AWS Regions: Malaysia, Thailand, Taipei, New Zealand, Canada West (Calgary) and Mexico (Central). The expansion enables policy-based data protection and time-based recovery for Aurora clusters via backup plans. To protect clusters, add them to an existing or new backup plan and ensure continuous backups or PITR are enabled on the relevant backup rule. Management is available via the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs.

🔁 Amazon has added enhanced consumer offset synchronization to MSK Replicator, improving bidirectional Kafka replication so consumer applications resume from the correct position when moved across clusters. This lets teams move producers and consumers independently, in any order, without risking data loss or duplicate processing. Previously, offsets synchronized only when producers and consumers ran on the same cluster, which required careful migration sequencing. The feature can be enabled via the AWS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS CloudFormation and is available in all Regions where MSK Replicator is offered.

🛡️ Many businesses assume that backing up data equals protection, but backups alone do not sustain operations during outages. The article contrasts traditional backups, which enable post-incident restore, with BCDR solutions that keep systems running through failover and rapid recovery. It cites research showing recovery expectations often exceed real-world performance and recommends hybrid cloud strategies. Datto sponsors the piece and positions its BCDR tools for MSPs.