Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, with nearly 98% of businesses utilizing cloud services in some capacity. This trend continues to grow as organizations store, process, and manage vast amounts of critical data in the cloud. However, with great convenience comes significant risk. Security threats, accidental deletions, and cloud outages can lead to severe disruptions, resulting in financial losses and reputational damage. A strong backup and recovery strategy is essential to mitigate these risks and ensure uninterrupted operations.
Veeam is a leader in cloud data protection, offering seamless backup, recovery, and management solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and hybrid environments. With the latest updates, Veeam Backup for AWS v9 and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v8 introduce enhanced security features, greater automation, and broader workload support, making data protection more reliable and efficient than ever.
The Power of Veeam for Cloud
Veeam’s strength lies in its native integration with leading cloud platforms and technologies. Whether you’re running workloads on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, or on-premises systems like Windows and Linux, Veeam provides a unified solution that works seamlessly across all environments. This is especially critical for businesses operating in hybrid or multi-cloud setups, where data silos and complexity can become major challenges.
Veeam eliminates these challenges by offering a single platform to protect, manage, and recover your data, no matter where it resides. Its advanced backup and replication capabilities ensure rapid recovery in the event of ransomware attacks, accidental deletions, or system failures. With Veeam, downtime is minimized, and business continuity is maintained, even in the face of unexpected disruptions.
New Features in Veeam Backup for AWS v9
Veeam Backup for AWS v9 introduces several key enhancements designed to improve security, performance, and workload support.
- Enhanced security: Veeam is introducing a read-only user role to its Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), along with support for AWS Organizations. This read-only capability allows administrators to grant user groups, such as compliance roles, automatic access to view backup configurations and statuses without the ability to make changes. With integration into AWS Organizations, RBAC with read-only access enables more comprehensive and centralized management of access controls across multiple accounts and application owners.
- Optimized performance: Web proxy settings are enhanced, delivering faster and more secure data transfers. These improvements optimize backup and recovery performance while ensuring your data remains protected during transit.
- Expanded workload support: AWS v9 now supports backup and restore capabilities for Amazon Redshift Serverless. With this new feature, businesses using Redshift for data warehousing can efficiently protect and restore their serverless workloads, enabling better scalability, flexibility, and ease of management for cloud-based analytics and big data workloads.
New Features in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v8
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v8 brings similar advancements, with a focus on security, automation, and workload protection.
- Granular access control: Similar to the AWS v9 update, Azure v8 now includes a read-only user role in its Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). This enhancement enables organizations to grant users read-only access to backup configurations and statuses. It supports compliance roles and allows application owners to check on Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) without needing internal support. This ability to view statuses without making changes enhances both the operational efficiency and security of cloud environments.
- Improved performance: Web proxy enhancements ensure faster and more secure data transfers, optimizing backup and recovery performance while maintaining data integrity.
- Smarter automation: Policy tagging simplifies backup policy management by allowing administrators to categorize and organize backups based on workload type, department, or priority. This structured approach reduces management complexity, enhances operational efficiency, and saves valuable time.
- Expanded database protection: A major update in Azure v8 is the new backup support for Cosmos DB for MongoDB. As NoSQL databases become increasingly critical for modern applications, protecting them is essential. With this update, businesses can now back up MongoDB workloads within Cosmos DB, safeguarding their data against loss, corruption, or accidental deletion.
Why Veeam Stands Out
What sets Veeam apart is its ability to deliver a comprehensive and unified data management solution that works across all cloud environments. Whether you’re operating in a single cloud, a hybrid setup, or a multi-cloud architecture, Veeam ensures consistent, reliable data protection at every level.
- Scalability and flexibility: Veeam’s cloud solutions scale effortlessly as businesses grow and their IT needs evolve, adapting to increasing workloads and expanding infrastructure.
- Innovation and future-proofing: In a rapidly changing cloud landscape, staying ahead of the curve is critical. With regular updates and new features, Veeam ensures your business is always equipped with the latest tools to tackle emerging challenges and keep its cloud environments resilient and compliant.
Conclusion
Veeam continues to lead the way in cloud data protection with its latest updates in AWS v9 and Microsoft Azure v8. With enhanced security features, expanded workload support, and smarter automation, Veeam makes it easier than ever to protect, manage, and recover your data across cloud environments.
Also recently announced, Elastio has joined the Veeam® Infused Program as a Security Partner, integrating its platform with Veeam Data Platform to provide continuous, agentless inspection of backups for ransomware. This proactive approach helps detect threats early, offering an additional layer of security beyond traditional EDR and XDR solutions.
In a world where data is your most valuable asset, Veeam gives you the confidence to innovate, scale, and grow without worrying about downtime or data loss. Ready to take your cloud data protection to the next level? Explore Veeam’s solutions today and see how they can transform your cloud strategy.