AWS Backup 2025 year in review: advancing recovery resilience
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This article reviews AWS Backup's 2025 advancements in data protection and recovery resilience capabilities.
- Expanded service coverage to Amazon EKS, Redshift Serverless, and Aurora DSQL
- Introduced low-cost warm storage tier reducing S3 backup costs by up to 30%
- Added item-level search and recovery for faster, granular restore operations
- Enhanced EC2 restores with custom volume configuration support
- Streamlined cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copying for RDS and Aurora
- Expanded logically air-gapped vaults to FSx file systems with CMK support
- Enabled primary backups directly to logically air-gapped vaults
- Launched multi-party approval for vault access in AWS Organizations
- Integrated Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for automated backup scanning
- Extended delegated administrator support to 17 Regions
AWS Backup strengthened recovery resilience through immutable backups, ransomware protection, and integrity validation capabilities, addressing enterprise data protection and compliance requirements.
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