All news with #bcdr tag

🔔 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.

🔒 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.