AWS re:Invent 2025 - Cloud Resilience in the AI Era (HMC307)

Navigating the AI Era: Ensuring Cloud Resilience

The Rise of Agentic AI and Enterprise Risks

• Agentic AI refers to large language models (LLMs) with the ability to take actions on a user's behalf
• Agentic AI is expected to drive significant enterprise productivity and workflow automation
• However, the rise of agentic AI also introduces new risks:
  • AI agents can operate at superhuman speeds, potentially causing 10x the damage in 1/10th the time
  • AI agents use non-human identities and credentials, operating in ecosystems not designed for the AI generation
  • Enterprises lack visibility and control over the AI agents running in their environments

Key Concerns for Enterprises Adopting Agentic AI

• Lack of a centralized view of all AI agents running in the environment
• Uncertainty around the tools and data that AI agents can access
• Difficulty in recovering from AI mistakes or unintended actions

Rubric's Approach: The Agent Operations Platform

Rubric has introduced the Rubric Agent Cloud, a platform that addresses the key challenges of agentic AI adoption:

1. Monitoring and Observability

• Automatically discovers AI agents across the environment
• Provides an inventory of agents, their credentials, and the tools/data they can access

2. Governance

• Translates enterprise policies into software-enforced configurations
• Ensures AI agents operate within defined boundaries

3. Remediation

• Provides "AI Agent Rewind" functionality to undo destructive actions taken by AI agents
• Leverages Rubric's data backup and restoration capabilities to recover from AI-related incidents

Ensuring Cloud Data Resilience

• The shared responsibility model for cloud data resilience often leads to confusion and gaps in enterprise organizations
• Rubric helps enterprises address the different aspects of cloud data resilience:
  • High availability: Designing for common failures and operational outages
  • Disaster recovery: Planning for regional outages and natural disasters
  • Cyber resilience: Protecting data from cyber attacks and enabling effective recovery

Tiering Data Resilience

• Rubric recommends a tiered approach to data resilience based on the importance and criticality of the data/workloads:
  • Tier 1 (mission-critical): Requires local, remote, and cyber-vaulted copies
  • Tier 2 (business-critical): Requires local and remote copies, with optional cyber-vaulted copy
  • Tier 3 (less critical): May only require local copies, with ability to easily reproduce the environment

Addressing the S3 Data Resilience Blind Spot

• S3 data growth is exponential, with increasing amounts of sensitive data stored in S3 buckets
• Versioning and replication alone are not enough to protect against accidental deletions, malware, and recovery challenges at scale
• Rubric helps enterprises:
  • Discover sensitive data in S3 buckets
  • Provide immutable, cyber-vaulted backups of S3 data
  • Detect and quarantine malware in backup data
  • Enable rapid, reliable recovery from S3 data incidents

Rubric's Cloud-Native Architecture

• Rubric Security Cloud is a SaaS platform that provides a unified view and management of data resilience across cloud, on-premises, and AI environments
• Leverages cross-account IAM roles and least-privileged access principles for secure, automated data protection
• Offers a restricted data processing account and a data bunker account for secure backup storage and processing
• Provides tag-based automation for applying backup policies based on data criticality
• Integrates with infrastructure-as-code for seamless recovery and environment redeployment

Protecting the DevOps Environment

• The DevOps environment, including code repositories, pipelines, and collaboration tools, is a critical but often overlooked area for data resilience
• Rubric's DevOps protection capabilities ensure the recoverability of these essential components, enabling rapid recovery and business continuity in the event of an incident

Key Takeaways

• Agentic AI introduces new risks and challenges that enterprises must address to enable successful AI adoption
• Rubric's Agent Operations Platform provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring, governing, and remediating AI agent-related incidents
• Rubric's cloud data resilience approach helps enterprises tier and protect their data based on criticality, addressing blind spots like S3 data
• Rubric's cloud-native architecture and DevOps protection capabilities enable enterprises to build resilience across their entire digital ecosystem