At next AWS re:Invent, Commvault will show the new cloud cyber resilience features available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Commvault Cloud platform, including its widely deployed SaaS offerings (formerly known as Metallic), will provide AWS customers with cutting-edge solutions for automating data protection, advancing cyber recovery, and simplifying the cloud application rebuild process following a cyber-attack.

Latest capabilities and enhancements specific for AWS environment are:

• Clumio Backtrack: enables quick recovery of Amazon S3 buckets, scaling to billions of objects.
• Commvault Cloud Rewind: acts as an AWS time machine letting organizations “rewind” to the last clean copy of their data, recover that data, and automate the cloud application rebuild process.
• Commvault Cloud Air Gap Protect: provide air-gapped, immutable, and indelible copies of critical data.
• Commvault Cloud Cleanroom Recovery: provide an on-demand, isolated cloud-based cyber recovery environment to provide resilience in the face of cyberattacks and for cyber recovery testing.

Let’s describe better each of them.

Clumio Backtrack

This is the result of Clumio acquisition in September 24: Clumio helps organizations simplify data protection in AWS. Its secure air-gapped SaaS backup solution enables organizations to achieve ransomware protection, backup and restore data in minutes, and gain better visibility to optimize cloud storage costs.

Clumio Backtrack is a new capability (100% SaaS-based) that will enable enterprises to use automation to rapidly revert objects stored in Amazon S3 to a specific version at a specific point-in-time.

Amazon S3 is actually storing 350 trillion objects and exabytes of data and it’s the foundational for modern apps and next-gen AI workloads. Amazon S3 is often the default choice for scalable, reliable, and secure data storage. S3 already provides some data protection features, like S3 Versioning or Object Lock and S3 Security Best Practice recommends to enable versioning to improve security. But is still challenging when you need to recovery your data: billions of objects must be correlated, there are manual processes to determine correct versions at specific points-in-time and they are time intensive and they delays the recovery time (RTO).

Leveraging Amazon S3 Versioning, Backtrack will uniquely empower organizations to recover datasets of practically any size, from individual objects to whole Amazon S3 buckets where billions of objects may be stored.

This makes it quick and easy for cloud operations, IT, and security teams to recover data from errors, accidents, or cyberattacks, almost as if they were able to turn back the clock to the last known good state.

Commvault will be demonstrating this new solution at AWS re:Invent 2024 from December 2-6, 2024 in Las Vegas. Attendees are invited to visit Commvault’s booth #722 and its Clumio booth #513 for live demonstrations and discussions on how this solution can transform their resilience strategies. To schedule a demo or learn more about Clumio Backtrack, click here.

Commvault will offer early access to Clumio Backtrack in December, with global general availability planned for early 2025.

Commvault Cloud Rewind

This is the result of Appranix acquisition in April, 16:  Appranix is a cloud cyber resilience company and Commvault made this acquisition to help enterprises get up and running even faster after an outage or cyberattack. 

Cloud Rewind acts as an AWS time machine. This cloud-native offering lets organizations “rewind” to the last clean copy of their data, recover that data, and automate the cloud application rebuild process so that businesses can get back to normal in minutes versus hours, days, weeks, or months.

Today, when organisations are attacked, restoring the data is only half the battle. The truly laborious task is actually restoring the distributed cloud applications, which are used to run and power that data.

Cloud Rewind introduces an advanced set of unique capabilities designed to help businesses bounce back from cyber incidents with exceptional speed and efficiency.

• Completely agentless: you can discover, protect, rewind, and recover entire application environments in minutes.  
• Reduce organisational risk with resource discovery: automatically identifies and catalogs all cloud components in use, offering full visibility into what assets need protection and recovery. So that nothing critical is missed in the recovery process, even in complex, multi-cloud environments.
• Reduce operational confusion and toil with app-centric dependency mapping: analyses and defines the intricate relationships between various cloud components. This feature accelerates the task of piecing these dependencies together after an incident, making the rebuild process much faster. So, when a system is restored, all connected resources and services are aligned, with little to no human involvement.
• Keep security teams in-sync with drift analysis: helps return restored systems to their correct state by identifying and correcting any deviations (or “drifts”) from the original configuration. This proactive capability keeps tabs so that restored systems are aligned with their secure and functional state after an incident.
• Automated cyber recovery testing with Recovery-as-Code: captures not only the data but also the full map of applications, infrastructure, and networking configurations. This means that systems can be restored with their complete operational blueprint intact, reducing guesswork for a thorough recovery.
• Avoid wasting cloud resources with on-demand cloud reconstruction: puts it all back together, helping customers swiftly rebuild both the data environment and its supporting infrastructure. This provides organisations with a secure and operational cloud environment, ready for immediate use following a disruption.
• Integrated application-centric cyber recovery and disaster recovery: Cloud Rewind integrates with Commvault Cloud data resilience capabilities to help organisations rapidly recover from short-term failures to debilitating cyber-attacks with a few clicks

Cloud Rewind and the Cyber Resilience Dashboard will be generally available in the coming months.

Commvault Cloud Air Gap Protect and Cleanroom Recovery

This critical last line of defense offering will provide AWS customers with immutable, isolated copies of data in a Commvault tenant, as a service. This offering joins Commvault’s current capabilities for backup and protection in customer-owned tenants. This gives AWS customers another way to keep their data safe and resilient.

Air Gap Protect hot and cool storage tiers provide greater flexibility for cloud storage options. If an organization is looking for a primary backup copy repository, they can use hot storage, while those seeking a secondary storage option for longer retention can leverage cool storage. Both storage tiers can be used together for flexibility and an end-to-end storage strategy.

Also Commvault is extending the power of Cleanroom Recovery to AWS. When attacked, this technology will allow organizations to automatically provision recovery infrastructure, allowing recovery to an isolated location in AWS and rapidly restore production workloads. Customers can also conduct forensics in this clean and safe location. The beauty of Cleanroom Recovery is that it also enables IT and security teams to frequently and fully test their cyber recovery plans in advance so that they know when they are hit, they can recover quickly.

Commvault Cloud Air Gap Protect and Cleanroom Recovery will be available on AWS in the coming months.

Want to learn more?

If you are attending AWS re:Invent don’t miss those sessions:

• SEC225-S Best Practices for Cyber Readiness, Recovery and Rebuild (Thursday Dec 5 at 12:30PM at MOM-Charimans 366)
• STG102-S Near Instant Recovery of Petabyte Scale Amazon S3 Datasets (Wednesday Dec 4 at 1:30PM at Venetian Expo Hall – Theater 1 – Partner Experience Pavilion