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Introduction to RDS Airgap Data Protection
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Enterprises often rely on their data retention systems to ensure business continuity, customer contracts, compliance, and e-Discovery. Storage optimization is an ongoing process of evaluating your data storage and choosing a cost-effective storage option that meets business needs.

Our RDS Airgap data protection solution offers a robust, SaaS-based solution designed to enhance data security and simplify management. With automated backup policies for AWS Workloads, data backups are decoupled from your AWS Organization and securely stored in our secure Cloud, ensuring resilience even in the event of a primary account breach.

Leverage a true cloud-native agentless platform that brings end-to-end protection and a unified management experience, ensuring airgap data security for EC2 and RDS resources via a single pane of glass. With managed keys, your data is encrypted at rest and in transit, ensuring optimal data protection. A comprehensive solution with zero infrastructure and no egress costs, our RDS Airgap backup solution delivers exceptional operational efficiency, cost savings, and peace of mind.


📝 Note

To protect RDS databases and clusters using our air-gapped data protection solution, 2 credits will be consumed for 1 TB of backup data stored in Cloud per month. For more information, please see Credit consumption.


Key benefits of Airgap backup solution for RDS databases

The RDS Airgap data protection solution brings some key advantages:

  • Cost benefits: Eliminate the need to maintain multiple backup copies with substantial cost savings and no egress fee while copying data to cross-regions.

  • Data security: Significantly reduce risk of unauthorized access or tampering of backup data with Airgap data protection, ensuring data integrity and reliable data retrieval. Data encryption leverages AWS key management system (KMS) with best-in-class SaaS security.

  • Agentless: A true cloud-native platform with end-to-end protection and no installation or agent dependencies.

  • Policy-based governance: Define your data protection strategy with tiered retention.

  • Scalability: Cloud-native solution that is designed for large enterprise environments. Added flexibility with AWS tags eliminates the need for manual addition of AWS RDS instances at the policy level.

Here’s a quick video on what the Airgap solution for Amazon RDS offers.

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