Rest at the Bonfire: All Progress Saved with AWS Backup

Your weekly deep dive into cloud security, where technical expertise meets real-world application. Join hosts Russ Noll and Tristan Watty Ph.D. every Monday at 11am PST for an hour of comprehensive cloud security content that bridges the gap between technical implementation and practical business solutions. In this special World Backup Day Eve episode, we'll explore AWS Backup and the critical role it plays in protecting your organization's most valuable asset: its data. Just like resting at a bonfire saves your progress and prepares you for the challenges ahead, a well designed backup strategy ensures your organization can recover from any disaster, whether it's accidental deletion, ransomware, or a full scale regional outage. Learning Objective 1: Understand the core concepts of AWS Backup, including backup plans, backup vaults, recovery points, and lifecycle policies, and learn how to design centralized backup strategies that protect data across multiple AWS services such as EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, S3, and FSx while ensuring compliance with organizational retention requirements and regulatory frameworks. Learning Objective 2: Learn how to implement and configure AWS Backup across multi-account and multi-region environments using AWS Organizations integration, cross-account and cross-region copy rules, vault lock policies for immutable backups, and backup audit frameworks to build a comprehensive, resilient data protection strategy that ensures recoverability in even the most catastrophic disaster scenarios. Who should attend: This episode is ideal for cloud security professionals, solutions architects, systems administrators, and platform engineers who are responsible for ensuring the recoverability and resilience of their organization's data in AWS. Perfect for those who understand fundamental AWS services and want to build or strengthen their backup and disaster recovery strategies using AWS native tools. Whether you're designing your first centralized backup plan, implementing cross-account and cross-region backup architectures for enterprise environments, hardening your backup vaults against ransomware with immutable retention policies, or building automated compliance reporting for backup audit requirements, this session will provide the practical knowledge and techniques you need.