Partner POV | Introducing Rubrik Cloud Vault for AWS: Next-Gen Cyber Protection for AWS Customers

Article written by Daniel Lu, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Rubrik. 

Rubrik Cloud Vault has been a game-changer for enterprise data protection. The fully-managed cloud storage service provides secure, isolated, and immutable protection for backup —ensuring clean copies of your data are readily available for safe recovery from cyber incidents. This offsite layer of cyber resilience helps businesses mitigate data loss and downtime from threats in their primary environment.

Now, building on a strong partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rubrik is proud to announce Rubrik Cloud Vault on AWS. This upcoming advanced solution will be designed to enhance cyber resilience for AWS customers by providing the same protection previously not readily available to AWS users. 

The Imperative for Isolated, Immutable Data Protection

As cyber attacks become increasingly sophisticated, maintaining isolated, immutable data copies is essential for a comprehensive ransomware protection strategy. Isolated data vaults provide a critical last line of defense, preventing bad actors from tampering with or encrypting backup data even if they gain access to an organization's primary systems and credentials. With an isolated, immutable data repository, companies can rapidly restore operations from a known good state.

Here are six key benefits of Rubrik Cloud Vault for AWS: 

1. Isolated Data Protection: Rubrik Cloud Vault on AWS is designed to store backup data in an isolated, air-gapped environment, completely separate from your primary infrastructure. This logical separation creates an impenetrable barrier, preventing bad actors from accessing, modifying, or encrypting your backup data.
2. Fully Managed Service: Rubrik's solution is designed to handle all aspects of the service, including security, monitoring, and maintenance, eliminating the complexities and operational burdens associated with maintaining an isolated data vault in the cloud.
3. Zero Trust Design: At the core of Rubrik Cloud Vault is immutable storage, which ensures backup data cannot be encrypted, modified, or deleted by malicious actors. Role-based access controls, advanced encryption, and quorum authorization provide additional layers of protection, strictly controlling data access and preventing a single compromised account from wiping out backups.
4. Accelerated Cyber Recovery: Rubrik Cloud Vault is designed to provide organizations with the ability to quickly identify the most recent clean recovery point and initiate a fast, comprehensive system restore for AWS customers. 
5. Flexibility and Cost Predictability: Rubrik Cloud Vault aims to eliminate the complexity of managing cloud storage costs with a straightforward and predictable cost model, providing a single bill covering all expenses. Select from warm or cold storage tiers based on desired recovery time objectives (RTO) and cost requirements. 
6. Simplified Procurement: Rubrik Cloud Vault is planned to be available via AWS Marketplace, designed to leverage features like EDP (Enterprise Discount Program) decrements, streamlining the procurement process, ensuring seamless AWS integration, and consolidating billing.

Rubrik Strengthens Partnership With AWS

Rubrik Cloud Vault on AWS marks a significant milestone in Rubrik's ongoing strategic partnership with AWS. This collaboration represents a deep, long-term commitment to delivering innovative solutions that leverage the full power of the AWS cloud infrastructure.

Rubrik and AWS have worked closely together to design and build Rubrik Cloud Vault, to ensure seamless integration with AWS services and optimal performance within the AWS ecosystem. This tight integration aims to allow customers to benefit from the scalability, security, and global reach of AWS while enjoying Rubrik's industry-leading data protection and cyber resilience capabilities.

Indeed, Rubrik Cloud Vault for AWS is not just an upcoming product release—it's a testament to the power of strategic partnerships in driving innovation and solving complex challenges. As Rubrik and AWS continue to work together, customers can look forward to even more groundbreaking solutions that will shape the future of data protection and cyber resilience in the cloud era.

Key Takeaways:

1. Rubrik Cloud Vault for AWS will be designed to provide a fully managed, isolated, and immutable backup repository on AWS.
2. Key benefits of the design include: Accelerated cyber recovery capabilities, including parallel downloads and ML-driven targeted recovery, minimize downtime and operational disruptions.
3. The service is built on Zero Trust principals, including immutable, air-gapped storage, role-based access controls, and quorum authorization.
4. Flexible storage tiers and predictable pricing ensure cost-effective data protection tailored to organizational needs.
5. This aims at strengthening Rubrik's strategic partnership with AWS, bolstering future innovations in cloud-based data protection and cyber resilience.
6. Rubrik Cloud Vault is planned to be available via AWS Marketplace, designed to  leverage features like EDP (Enterprise Discount Program) decrements.