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🔧 AWS has expanded its Resilience Competency to include Technology Partners, enabling customers to identify validated software for high availability and recovery. The program evaluates solutions across Design, Recovery, and Operate categories through expert technical validation to meet strict performance and operational requirements. Qualified partners and solutions are discoverable via the AWS Resilience Competency and purchasable through AWS Marketplace, aligning with AWS's shared responsibility model. This aims to help organizations build always-on applications with lower cost and higher availability than on-premises alternatives.

⚡ Enabling the accelerated recovery option for Amazon Route 53 public hosted zones gives customers a predictable 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) to regain the ability to modify public DNS records if AWS services in US East (N. Virginia) are temporarily unavailable. The feature is available globally except in GovCloud and China, and there is no additional charge. It supports faster DNS change operations for banking, FinTech, and SaaS customers to meet continuity and disaster recovery objectives.

🔁 Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now support Aurora Global Database, enabling you to create a staging (green) environment that mirrors production (blue) across primary and all secondary regions. Perform a blue/green switchover to switch primary and secondary regions to the green environment with minimal downtime and no application configuration changes. Aurora automatically renames clusters, instances, and endpoints to preserve production connectivity. This capability covers Aurora MySQL‑ and PostgreSQL‑compatible editions in commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and is available via the Console, SDK, and CLI.

🔁 AWS Health now sends events simultaneously to the impacted AWS Region and US West (Oregon), enabling customers to create multi-region, redundant Amazon EventBridge rules or a simplified single-rule path that captures all commercial-partition Health events. US West (Oregon) serves as the backup for all commercial regions, with US East (N. Virginia) as the backup for US West. In China and AWS GovCloud the service delivers events to their respective paired regions. The update is available in all AWS regions.

🔁NAKIVO has released Backup & Replication v11.1, expanding disaster recovery and MSP capabilities and adding five interface languages—French, Italian, German, Polish and Chinese. The update brings major Proxmox VE improvements, including Flash VM Boot, VM replication and template backup/recovery, automated backup verification with screenshots, direct tape recovery, and Exchange/SQL log truncation. It also introduces MSP Direct Connect to remove client-side port changes, Real-Time Replication for VMware with automated IO Filter and Journal Service installation, and granular folder- and volume-level backups for Windows and Linux physical machines with encryption, immutability and air-gapping options.

🔐 Executives must treat cybersecurity and business continuity as a unified discipline rather than separate functions. Drawing on six years managing high-availability systems at Amazon, the author warns that attackers increasingly target recovery and backup infrastructure, turning outages into leverage. The article advocates network segmentation, air-gapped and offline backups, and integrated incident-response and recovery testing to protect operations and reputation.

🔁Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) to support Multi-Region Replication in Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). The managed capability automatically replicates tables across Regions with typically less than one second of replication lag, allowing applications to read and write the same table in multiple Regions. Customers gain lower latency, improved regional resiliency, and can replicate between these Regions and any other supported AWS Region while paying only for resources they use.

☁️ Microsoft positions resiliency as a shared responsibility, combining its global infrastructure, SLAs, and platform capabilities with customer-owned architecture, configuration, and recovery planning. Azure Essentials packages blueprints, assessments, and validation tools like Azure Chaos Studio and Azure Monitor to enable zone-redundant and multi-region designs. The guidance stresses continuous validation, automated remediation, and governance to reduce downtime and accelerate recovery.

☁️ Global Payments partnered with Google Cloud to design a multi-region, highly available database architecture using Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus. The deployment spans three regions with zonal replication, read replicas, cascading replication, and Cloud SQL Auth Proxy integration to support low-latency reads and rapid failover. This configuration yields near-zero planned downtime, sub-minute RTO and zero RPO for Tier 1 workloads, while meeting PCI DSS, GDPR, and NIST requirements.

🔐 A Hiscox survey of 1,000 mid-sized firms finds ransomware remains a major risk: 27% of organizations reported attacks in the past year and 80% of victims paid ransom. Yet only 60% of those who paid recovered data fully or partially. Experts cite faulty encryptors, unreliable decryptors, corrupted backups and double/triple extortion as common causes. Industry specialists recommend tested recovery plans, retainers with incident response teams, and robust cyber insurance rather than relying on ransom payments.

🔒 Two in five companies that pay ransomware attackers still fail to recover their data, according to a Hiscox survey of thousands of SMEs. The study found 27% of businesses were hit in the past year and 80% of affected firms paid a ransom, yet only 60% recovered all or part of their data. Experts blame flawed encryptors, corrupted or compromised backups, and complex double- or triple-extortion tactics. Organisations are urged to maintain tested recovery plans, forensic validation, and incident response retainers rather than rely on payment.

🛡️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now preserves Change Data Capture (CDC) settings and metadata when restoring native database backups. By specifying the KEEP_CDC option during a restore, customers retain CDC configuration and any captured change data, preventing gaps in ongoing data-capture workflows. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for SQL Server is offered and is documented in the RDS for SQL Server User Guide.

🔒 Modernize disaster recovery and continuity with six practical steps for CISOs. Secure executive funding and form a cross-functional team, map risks and locate data across cloud, SaaS, OT, and edge devices, and conduct a Business Impact Analysis to define a Minimal Viable Business (MVB). Evolve backups to 3-2-1-1-0 with immutable or air-gapped copies, adopt BaaS/DRaaS and AI-driven tools for discovery and autonomous backups, and run realistic, gamified tests followed by post-mortems.

🔒 Kantsu, a midsize Japanese logistics firm, was hit by ransomware on Sept. 12, 2024 that encrypted servers, cut communications, and halted shipping operations for hundreds of clients. The company refused to pay a ransom, shut down networks, replaced PCs, and rebuilt its cloud WMS Cloud Thomas on AWS while using analog processes to maintain critical shipments. Executives prioritized speed, cash availability, and employee welfare during an expensive recovery process that exposed gaps in cyber insurance.

🛡️ Modern disaster recovery and business continuity require a ground-up rebuild to address distributed data, evolving cyberthreats, climate-driven disruptions, and strict breach-reporting obligations. Key elements include executive sponsorship, standing interdisciplinary teams, AI-assisted discovery and classification, continuous and immutable backups aligned with a 3-2-1-1-0 approach, and the design of a minimum viable business to restore core functions. Frequent, gamified tabletop exercises and automated validation complete a resilient program.

🔔 AWS Backup is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, offering centrally managed, policy-driven protection for compute, storage, and database resources. The fully managed service supports immutable recovery points and vaults to guard against accidental or malicious deletions and to enable reliable restores after data loss. Customers can set up protection via the console, SDKs, or CLI and assign resources using tags or Resource IDs.

🔒 Ineffective recovery processes and increasingly sophisticated ransomware are driving adoption of Cyber Recovery approaches that isolate and validate backups before restoring systems. Modern platforms combine immutable snapshots, sandboxed restores, and automated forensics with AI/ML-based detection to identify safe restore points and reduce downtime. Vendors highlighted include Acronis, Cohesity, Commvault, Dell, Druva, Rubrik, Veeam, Zerto.

🔁 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.

🛡️ When a cyberattack strikes, three capabilities matter most: clarity, control and a dependable lifeline. Real-time visibility and a unified view enable quick detection of anomalies and identification of the blast radius. Rapid containment—isolating endpoints, revoking credentials and enforcing policies—prevents lateral spread. Finally, immutable backups, granular restores and orchestrated disaster recovery ensure fast, trusted restoration of operations.

🔧 Amazon announces that Aurora DSQL now integrates with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to enable controlled resilience testing for applications that depend on Aurora DSQL. Customers can simulate regional connectivity disruptions and full inaccessibility to validate failover, reconnection, and recovery behaviours across single-Region and multi-Region deployments. Experiment templates can be included in CI pipelines and FIS generates detailed reports that can be stored in Amazon S3 for auditing and compliance. The capability is available in multiple AWS Regions.