Category: AWS

In Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, I covered the legal basis, backup strategy, policy implementation, locking the recovery points stored in the vault, and applying vault policy to prevent specific actions. In this part, I will dive deeply into two essential compliance-related topics: Legal Holds and Audit Manager. Legal Holds AWS Backup Legal…

In Part 1 and Part 2, I covered the legal basis, backup strategies, and retention and briefly touched on vaults. In this part, I will cover policy creation in the root or backup delegated account, configuring Vaults & its compliance lock, legal holds, and resource selection. Vaults Configuration To begin with, let’s create three standard…

In Part 1, I emphasized DORA’s requirements and the overall architecture of resource backup within an organization. In this part, I will focus on backup initiation strategies, vaults, retention of the recovery points, and tagging policy. Backup Strategies If the resources in your AWS Organization are managed via code, aka infrastructure as code, you are…

When discussing cloud resource backup and restoration, there are many ways to handle them. You may wonder what the best way is! Should you use backup and restoration software that you might be already familiar with from your on-premises data center, like Vaeem? Or should you consider using software built in the age of cloud-native…

Satyajit Ranjeev and I had the pleasure of attending the Amazon Web Services (AWS) FSI Forum in Berlin. The AWS FSI Forum is dedicated to inspiring and connecting the Financial Services community in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. M. Reza and Satyajit took to the stage to share their insights from Solaris’ migration journey to AWS,…