AWS re:Invent 2022 just wrapped up, and for me, I have finally made it back to Australian shores for our non-snowy, hopefully, hot Christmas Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the long flight(s) home I was able to reflect on the 119 new services and features that were announced as part of AWS re: Invent 2022 from Nov 28 \u2013 Dec 2nd<\/sup>, and the myriad of new capabilities we announced in our latest innovation release, Commvault Platform Release 2023<\/a> (released Dec 15th, <\/sup>2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know I felt like a kid in a candy store trying to decide what I\u2019m going to try first when I return to the office in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I saw four major themes emerge across re: Invent that underpin the responsible building of secure and sustainable cloud native applications. Builders need to consider security of data in-transit and at-rest, responsible scaling, and cloud operations that respond to planned and unplanned events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Securing the cloud,<\/strong> which continues to be Job Zero for both AWS and builders alike as we strive to build more data-driven applications, that are more accessible than ever before. Some notable releases that will positively impact AWS and Commvault customers looking to protect their AWS resources were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scaling Cloud Operations <\/strong>was a recurring theme for almost all service and feature releases. As businesses expand in AWS service adoption and consumption, they need to be able to scale or automate their cloud operations. Some notable enhancements to help achieve cost-optimized operations were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Expanding to new Regions and Zones<\/strong> was a common theme across 2022 with AWS expanding availability into three new regions \u2013 Europe (Zurich<\/a>) eu-central-2, Europe (Spain<\/a>) eu-south-2, and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad<\/a>) ap-south-2 and up to a total of 281 AWS Local Zones. AWS services and resources are now even more available to begin your 2023 migration projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commvault makes migration simpler, more secure, and faster by <\/em>converting and replicating UEFI-based VMs to Amazon EC2<\/em><\/a>, including the programmatic modification of on-prem Linux hosts to <\/em>automatically inject required Amazon EC2 nitro OS drivers<\/em><\/a>. Get started today with a one-time conversion or set up periodic replication and cut-over to running in AWS when required.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n New toys for builders<\/strong> is what re: Invent is all about, and 2022 was no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commvault eagerly awaits the impact some of these performance improvements will deliver on data protection, replication, and recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can get started today by downloading Commvault Platform Release 2023 from the Commvault Software Store<\/a>, or if you want don\u2019t want to setup and configure a data protection system \u2013 sign up for a free 30-day Metallic Trial<\/a> and start protecting your AWS resources today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have a happy holiday and rest up, as all the work you did to be Recovery Ready<\/em><\/strong> with Commvault and Metallic in 2022 will pay off during the holiday break\u2026 \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learn more about AWS re: Invent and the 119 new services and features that were revealed to support your new year of developing resilient solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":68055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_custom_css":"","_custom_js_footer":"","_page_background_color":"","_remove_from_search":false,"_dark_mode":false,"_light_footer_mode":false,"_sidebar_form":{"id":"","name":"","cta":"","redirect":""},"_alert_notification_bar":{"show":true,"bg_color":"","content":"","call_to_action_label":"","call_to_action_link":""},"_footer_cta":{"show":false,"title":"","subtitle":"","cta_text":"","cta_link":"","background":{"id":0,"url":""}},"_cmv_customer_logo":{"id":0,"url":""},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"i18n_hreflangs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"cmv_author":[873],"class_list":{"0":"post-68053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"cmv_author-mathew-ericson","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n\n
Commvault agrees with delegated security controls and can enforce multi-person authorization for sensitive data actions like deletions or restoration of data. See <\/em>Authorization by Tenant Administrators for Business Logic Workflows<\/em><\/a> to ensure you are delegating the protection of your data to more than one individual.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Commvault hopes your business stays malware-free, but hope is never a plan. Commvault now <\/em>scans your backup content for malware<\/em><\/a> to allow recovery from known clean backup data. Ensure recovery is always part of your threat analysis and response plan.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
Stay tuned to Commvault <\/em>What\u2019s New<\/em><\/a> announcements for updates on new regional supportability. Commvault supports most <\/em>AWS Regions<\/em><\/a> and all AWS Local Zones today. Commvault announced <\/em>Amazon VPC Protection<\/em><\/a> in Commvault Platform Release 2023 to ensure your network configurations are protected and recoverable as you expand into and across the 30 Regions available today.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n
Commvault automates the power management of MediaAgents by powering Amazon EC2 data management resources on and off as backup and recovery activities occur. This approach saves runtime costs but migrates resource optimization to an event-driven scalable approach. You can automate resource power management. backup, and recovery operations with Commvault too, just grab an <\/em>access token<\/em><\/a> to access the Commvault service endpoint and start automating today.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
Commvault recommends using AWS resource tags on all your AWS resources to improve visibility, cost transparency, and support automation efforts. Commvault ensures tags are restored on all created resources and allows the <\/em>setting of tags during recovery<\/em><\/a> to align with your observability, cost management, and security needs.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
Commvault announced <\/em>IntelliSnap\u00ae snapshot management for Amazon<\/em><\/a> FSx for NetApp ONTAP in Commvault Platform Release 2023. Customers can orchestrate application-aware snapshots and service-independent streamed backup copies of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP SMB shares, NFS exports, and iSCSI volumes. Snapshot-based backups can be replicated using NetApp SnapVault and SnapMirror between Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems or between on-prem and the AWS Cloud.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n