Organizations are increasingly migrating critical applications to managed cloud databases on Amazon Web Services, driving new innovation and efficiency. However rapid adoption often exposes businesses to significant data security vulnerabilities, including the growing threat of ransomware and other cyberattacks.
Data backup can be a remedy, but native backup tools can be complex to manage and often lack the robust security features needed to ensure true cyber resilience.
At Rubrik, we're on a mission to secure the world's data. We're excited to announce a major expansion of our cloud data protection services: comprehensive support for Amazon DynamoDB and a purpose-built engine for relational databases, beginning with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
These new capabilities provide customers with unparalleled security, simplified operations, and significant cost savings for their mission-critical cloud databases. Here’s how.
Comprehensive Protection for Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a premier NoSQL database service trusted by more than a million customers for its incredible scalability and performance. As organizations rely on it for high-traffic, critical applications, the need for robust data protection is more critical than ever.
While AWS Backup offers some protection, it has limitations; for example, AWS Backup is restricted to full backups only, which can drive up costs and operational complexity.
Rubrik's new data protection solution for DynamoDB addresses this challenge head-on, delivering:
Drastic Cost Reduction: Say goodbye to the ever-growing storage costs associated with full-only backups. Rubrik’s incremental-forever backup approach reduces your DynamoDB cloud storage costs significantly compared to AWS Backup. This efficiency extends to storage tiering, enabling backups to be stored on cheaper storage tiers at a lower cost to meet long-term retention objectives.
Automated and Streamlined Operations: Rubrik replaces the manual, tedious processes of native backup tools with a single, policy-driven console that automates everything from backup scheduling and immutability to cross-account and cross-region disaster recovery. This means you can eliminate complex configurations and manual export/import processes, reducing the risk of human error and freeing up your IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives.
A Single Pane of Glass for True Visibility: With Rubrik, you get a unified dashboard to monitor and manage all your DynamoDB instances across every connected AWS account and region. Rubrik automatically discovers all your DynamoDB instances, ensuring that no database goes unprotected due to oversight. This centralized view eliminates protection blind spots and simplifies compliance reporting.
A New Purpose-Built Engine for Enhanced Amazon RDS Protection
We're also thrilled to introduce a new, purpose-built engine specifically engineered for cloud-managed relational databases, launching first with support for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. This new engine is platform agnostic, simplifying protection and reducing operational complexity for database engines and clouds.
With this new engine, Rubrik delivers:
Immutable Protection by Default: In the face of rising ransomware attacks, you must ensure that your backups are unchangeable. Rubrik provides immutable backups by default, so your data is protected from day one without the complex setup required by AWS Backup Vault. This ensures that your critical relational database backups are safe from both malicious and accidental deletion.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Rubrik’s efficient architecture delivers lower TCO compared to AWS Backup. We achieve this through advanced storage efficiency, including incremental backups and automated data tiering to low-cost cold storage, which optimizes your cloud spending without compromising protection.
Simplified and Unified Operations: Our engine provides a centralized management view of your RDS backup information across multiple cloud regions and accounts. This eliminates the operational blind spots and fragmented management that come with native tools, allowing for consistent policy enforcement and streamlined operations across your entire database estate.
We are incredibly excited to bring these new innovations to our customers. Are you ready to secure your AWS cloud databases?