Data resilience at scale with Amazon S3 Versioning & Clumio (STG102)

Data Protection in the Context of Amazon S3

Key Takeaways

  1. S3 has become the primary storage for many cloud-native applications, making data protection crucial.
  2. Traditional data recovery methods like replication and object versioning have limitations in handling large-scale, rapidly changing S3 buckets.
  3. Clumio Backtrack is a new feature that addresses the challenges of data recovery in S3 by tracking metadata and enabling effortless rollback to a specific point in time.
  4. Clumio Backtrack complements Clumio Backup, providing a more cost-effective first line of defense for protecting S3 data.
  5. Clumio is also working on similar solutions for DynamoDB, allowing granular, in-place restoration of specific partitions or keys.

S3 as Primary Storage for Cloud-Native Applications

  • S3 is no longer just a secondary storage, but a fundamental building block for cloud-native applications.
  • Customers are heavily relying on S3 for their primary data storage.
  • The rich features and integrations introduced by the S3 team at re:Invent further solidify S3's importance in cloud application development.

Data Protection Challenges in S3

  • 7 out of 10 customers employ a combination of object versioning and replication for data protection in S3 buckets.
  • Point-in-time recovery is highly desirable, but scaling this process is challenging.
  • Replication simply replicates all changes, including accidental deletions, to the destination.
  • Object versioning allows for single-object rollback, but scaling this to the bucket or prefix level is complex.

Clumio Backtrack

  • Clumio Backtrack tracks all metadata changes in S3 buckets, integrating with Amazon S3 Inventory and Event Bridge.
  • This enables effortless rollback to a specific point in time, even for buckets with billions of objects.
  • Clumio Backtrack supports a 15-minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and is highly scalable and reliable.

Clumio Backup vs. Clumio Backtrack

  • Clumio Backup captures both data and metadata, creating a secondary copy for recovery.
  • Clumio Backtrack captures only metadata, relying on the existing object versions in the S3 bucket.
  • Clumio Backtrack is a more cost-effective first line of defense, while Clumio Backup provides protection against all types of data loss, including account or bucket-level compromises.
  • Clumio Backup customers will automatically get Clumio Backtrack enabled by the end of this month.

Clumio for DynamoDB

  • Clumio currently supports full and incremental backups for DynamoDB, with air-gap protection in a separate AWS account.
  • Upcoming features will allow granular, in-place restoration of specific partitions or keys, enabling targeted rollback for multi-tenant DynamoDB tables.

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