Rubrik boosts AWS database security with DynamoDB, RDS tools
Rubrik has announced new support for Amazon DynamoDB and released a cyber resilience solution for relational databases, initially focusing on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
The expansion of Rubrik's data protection services on AWS aims to provide additional security layers for customers handling growing data volumes in cloud environments. The announced offerings are designed to address data security gaps, mitigate the risk of cyber threats, and help meet compliance requirements by automating backup, ensuring data immutability, and streamlining recovery operations.
Services overview
Rubrik's extension to Amazon DynamoDB provides customers with a single policy-driven console that handles backup scheduling and cross-account recovery processes. Automation of these processes, often seen as complex and manual, intends to lower the burden on IT teams and standardise protection across environments.
For Amazon RDS users, Rubrik is launching a proprietary cyber resilience solution, with support for PostgreSQL. The company states that this approach eliminates the need for extra infrastructure to maintain immutable, undeletable backups, allowing databases to be continuously protected regardless of architecture complexity.
As organisations entrust their most critical data and applications with cloud database services, it's crucial to have secure and cost-effective protection in place. Extending our cloud database protection to Amazon DynamoDB and deepening our capabilities for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is a testament to our ongoing innovation and strategic partnership with AWS. Together, we can help our customers become truly cyber resilient.
The new solutions are intended to simplify management of AWS cloud database environments through centralised dashboards, offering unified views and control, particularly for customers who opt out of AWS's native data protection services.
Amazon DynamoDB protection
Rubrik's support for Amazon DynamoDB incorporates centralised visibility, which enables discovery and monitoring of DynamoDB instances across multiple AWS accounts and regions. This is particularly significant for organisations managing large, distributed deployments in the cloud.
Rubrik's platform allows for incremental-forever backups, which are designed to minimise storage consumption and associated costs. Customers can select from a range of Amazon S3 storage classes including S3 Standard, S3 Standard-Infrequent Access, S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive. This flexibility aims to increase cost efficiency for long-term data retention and compliance.
Cyber resilience for Amazon RDS
The proprietary cyber resilience solution for Amazon RDS offers immutable protection, ensuring backups cannot be altered or deleted. The platform does not require additional vault configurations or the combination of multiple services to achieve immutability, reducing operational complexity.
Operations management for Amazon RDS on PostgreSQL is consolidated into one interface, allowing organisations to maintain visibility and control of backup information across different regions and AWS accounts. This centralised approach targets organisations seeking alternatives to AWS's native tools, aiming to streamline compliance and recovery processes.
Customer benefits
Rubrik claims the new features will help customers reduce operational risk while simplifying management and minimising cloud costs. The unified platform approach is also designed to bring consistency across diverse and highly distributed AWS environments, addressing both security and operational requirements.
The expanded support responds to increased adoption of cloud-based database services, and recognises the challenges organisations face in securing such resources at scale.
All of Rubrik's newly announced or upcoming capabilities have been designed with the intent to help organisations address growing data security challenges presented by increased cloud adoption and the prevalence of cyber threats. They are delivered with a focus on automation and central management to aid enterprises in achieving cyber resilience without adding architectural complexity.
