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🔒 BleepingComputer will host a live webinar on May 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET that examines why managed service providers must align security and recovery strategies. Experts from Kaseya will explain how AI-driven phishing, BEC, and ransomware are evading traditional controls and how integrating backup and disaster recovery with detection reduces downtime. Attendees will receive practical guidance to strengthen MSP cyber resilience.

🛡️ AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). It enables organizations with data sovereignty requirements to protect mission-critical workloads and supports recovery from physical infrastructure, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper‑V, and cloud environments. AWS DRS delivers point-in-time recovery with RPOs measured in seconds and RTOs typically in minutes, and provides a unified process for testing, recovery, and failback.

🔁 Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups into and out of opt-in Regions for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. This extends cross-Region, cross-account backup and recovery capabilities beyond Regions enabled by default, enabling broader resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance architectures. Backup copies can be managed via the Amazon FSx console, API, CLI, and across accounts in the same AWS Organization using AWS Backup.

📁 AWS Backup now supports backup and restore for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, FSx for OpenZFS, and FSx for Lustre in five additional Regions — Malaysia, Taipei, Thailand, Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). You can centrally manage FSx backup policies, automate schedules, and monitor backup activity through AWS Backup in those Regions. AWS Backup also supports cross‑Region and cross‑account copy of FSx backups across 14 Regions, available for on‑demand copies and scheduled copy rules. In opt‑in Regions, backups can be placed in logically air‑gapped vaults to help defend against accidental deletion and ransomware.

🔒 Backup is now the backbone of business resilience, not just an IT routine. The article presents seven priorities—data prioritization, off-site and immutable copies, automated RPO/RTO, realistic recovery testing, SOC integration, and scalable playbooks—to reduce downtime and ransomware risk. It advocates a modern 3-2-1 approach with immutable cloud copies and daily automated recovery verification. N-able’s Cove Data Protection is cited as an example of a cyber-resilient solution.

🔁 Azure IaaS delivers an enterprise-grade platform with built-in capabilities across compute, storage, and networking to help keep mission-critical applications available during hardware issues, maintenance, zonal disruptions, and regional incidents. The platform emphasizes isolation, redundancy, failover, and recovery through features like Virtual Machine Scale Sets, availability zones, and multiple storage redundancy tiers. Networking services such as Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, and Azure Front Door help maintain reachability and reroute traffic when paths fail. Customers are encouraged to combine these primitives with IaC, testing, and operational practices to meet workload-specific RTO/RPO objectives.

🔒Over the past four years organizations have been increasingly challenged by threats that originate in third-party networks, with more than 35% of breaches tied to compromised vendors or partners. International conflict, generative AI and growing supply-chain exposure are accelerating risk and extending impact to Operational Technology (OT) and IoT environments. Leaders should elevate OT risk to the board, adopt immutable 3-2-1-1 backup strategies, and establish an AI Risk Council to enforce governance and pentesting before broad AI adoption.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon RDS Multi‑AZ clusters in 17 additional AWS Regions, extending managed backup coverage across Asia Pacific, Europe, South America, Africa, and Canada. The expansion brings centralized lifecycle management and immutable backups via AWS Backup Vault Lock to Multi‑AZ RDS clusters, improving retention controls and tamper protection. Administrators can add clusters to existing backup plans or create new plans and attach clusters using the console, AWS CLI, or SDKs.

🔁 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch now includes post-recovery workflows, native Amazon RDS execution blocks, and support in the AWS provider for Terraform. The update automates failover and the subsequent recovery preparation steps to reduce manual coordination and lower error risk. Post-recovery workflows support Lambda actions, RDS read-replica creation, nested ARC plans, and manual approvals, and can be triggered for active/passive deployments. Terraform support enables DR plans as Infrastructure-as-Code for CI/CD integration.

🛡️ Azure positions reliability as the primary objective and distinguishes it from resiliency and recoverability. Resiliency keeps workloads operational during faults through architecture, traffic management, and failure-domain choices, while recoverability restores service when disruptions exceed those boundaries. The post maps these concepts to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, the Azure Well‑Architected Framework, and specific Azure tools and guidance to help teams measure, validate, and govern continuity.

🔐 Ransomware has shifted boardroom and security priorities by showing that identity compromise can block recovery even after applications and data are restored. Security leaders now treat identity recovery as a designed capability, emphasizing immutable backups, automated restoration for Active Directory, and isolated backup platforms. Vendors such as Cognizant and Rubrik are positioning integrated services that combine orchestration, rapid recovery, and compliance-ready reporting to shorten downtime and reduce attacker re-entry risk.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports single-action cross-Region copies of database snapshots directly into logically air-gapped vaults for Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DocumentDB. This removes the previous two-step process and eliminates intermediate copy storage and related costs, enabling faster recovery point objectives (RPOs) while reducing operational complexity. The capability is available today in all Regions where AWS Backup supports these databases and air-gapped vaults and can be used via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDKs.

🔁 AWS now supports managed minor version upgrades for Aurora Global Database, enabling you to upgrade an entire global topology with minimal downtime. Administrators can initiate upgrades from the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI and have all regional clusters automatically moved to the chosen minor version. This eliminates manual per-cluster upgrades and reduces operational overhead for global cluster management. The capability currently supports Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible engines and is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔁 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports database replicas for instances configured in Oracle multi-tenant (CDB/PDB) environments. You can create replicas in mounted or read-only modes via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK, with Amazon RDS managing asynchronous physical replication using Oracle Data Guard. Replicas can scale read workloads, be promoted for disaster recovery, or be configured as cross-Region copies; licensing requirements differ by mode and should be reviewed before deployment.

🛡️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports native differential and transaction log restores for instances configured with Multi‑AZ and same‑region read replicas. This removes the prior requirement to convert instances to Single‑AZ before performing differential or log restores. Customers can reduce restore time while maintaining Multi‑AZ high availability and preserving Read Replica read capacity. The feature is available in all Regions where RDS for SQL Server is offered.

⚠️ Recent analysis highlights that major DevOps SaaS platforms (e.g., GitHub, Jira, Azure DevOps) experienced widespread incidents in 2024–2025, with critical outages and degraded-service hours increasing sharply year‑over‑year. The piece argues the Shared Responsibility model leaves customers ultimately accountable for their data, and that native provider backups often create single points of failure with limited restore flexibility. It recommends multi‑layered, immutable backups, cross‑restore capability, defined RTO/RPOs, and continuous recovery testing to reduce financial, operational, and compliance risk.

🔁 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports cross-region read replicas in 16 additional AWS Regions. Customers can place read-only replicas closer to users to reduce latency and scale out read workloads while maintaining a centralized primary for writes. Because read replicas can be promoted to standalone databases, they can also be used as part of disaster recovery and regional failover strategies. Each primary database can have up to fifteen read replicas across same or different regions.

🔁 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch now introduces three new capabilities: general availability in AWS GovCloud (US‑East and US‑West), automatic plan execution reports saved to an Amazon S3 bucket, and support for Amazon DocumentDB global cluster execution blocks. Execution reports include a detailed timeline, resources in scope, alarm states, and RTO calculations to simplify compliance and audit evidence. The DocumentDB execution blocks enable automated multi‑Region failover and switchover operations within Region switch plans. Build and run plans from the ARC console, API, or CLI to begin using these features.

🔬 Chaos engineering converts disaster recovery assumptions into measurable facts by running controlled experiments that simulate realistic failures and quantify impact. Instead of relying on audits or tabletop drills, teams define a steady state, form testable hypotheses, inject targeted failures, and use automated probes to measure effects on SLOs. This approach exposes gaps such as failover delays or error spikes and provides data to iterate DR procedures. Start small, build confidence, and consider engaging Google Cloud professional services for guidance.

🔁 Amazon S3 Tables now support automatic replication of Apache Iceberg tables across AWS Regions and accounts, duplicating full table structure, snapshots, and metadata to destination buckets. The feature creates read-only replica tables, backfills them to the source's latest state, and continuously monitors for updates while allowing independent snapshot retention and encryption settings per replica. Replicas are queryable with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio or any Iceberg-compatible engine such as Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark, and DuckDB. This capability is available in all Regions where S3 Tables are supported.