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Upcoming Workflow Enhancements to Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift Data Protection

We are enhancing your Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift Management Console to better align with the foundational structure of Druva Cloud Platform. This integration brings a consistent user experience across Druva’s products and services, with simplified backup configuration with backup sets, auto configuration rules, easier recovery point management, and job monitoring of your DynamoDB and Redshift orchestrated snapshots.

❗Important: Currently this integration applies only to DynamoDB and Redshift resources. Your existing deployments for EC2, RDS, S3 and EFS resources remain unchanged.

What's Changing

Here is a quick summary of what’s coming:

  • Independent backup policies: Configure DynamoDB and Redshift resources with policies decoupled from the global backup policy workflow.

  • Workflow enhancements: New dedicated tabs for Configured Resources and Recovery Points for Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift resources.

  • Autoconfiguration Rules: Automate resource management with include/exclude rules and tags, and then assigned backup policies to automate backup management and retention.

  • Enhanced Jobs monitoring: Monitor all operations optimized to Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift orchestration jobs.

Independent Backup Policy Management

What's Changing: Backup policies for Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Redshift are now decoupled from generic global backup plans. Configure DynamoDB and Redshift resources with an independent backup policy workflow.

How It Works

  • Create and assign backup policies tailored specifically to the operational requirements, backup windows, and retention schedules of DynamoDB and Redshift without impacting other workload-level configuration.

  • The new backup policy workflow aligns with the experience across existing Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS policies.

  • Policy management is now tied with autoconfiguration rules that provide an automated and efficient way to manage backup settings

Configure Policies

Introducing Autoconfiguration Rules

What's Changing: Automated resource management for Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift resources using specific attributes and tags to define dynamic resource groups.

How It Works

  • Automate resource management with include/exclude rules and tags, cutting down manual configuration within backup policies

  • Configure backup policies to specific autoconfigure rules so all matching resources are assigned the backup configuration and retention criteria.

Autoconfiguration Rules

Recovery Points Management

What's Changing: New dedicated tabs for Configured Resources and Recovery Points are now available on the primary navigation for Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift resources.

How It Works

  • This dedicated interface lets you directly select and organize Amazon DynamoDB tables and Amazon Redshift clusters into structured backup sets. You can initiate on-demand data recovery directly from a backup set.

  • Recovery Points: Recovery points are organized under two views:

    • Resource Level: View all historical recovery points associated with a specific Amazon DynamoDB or Redshift resource.

    • Global Recovery Points Tab: View and filter all recovery points across your Amazon DynamoDB or Redshift environment.

Configured Resources and Recovery Points

Restore Management

What's Changing

  • The Restore tab within the Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift user interfaces is deprecated.

  • All restore workflows for Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift resources are unified into the central Restore Jobs page. This change reduces UI fragmentation and provides a single pane of glass to track and audit all restore operations.

Enhanced Jobs Monitoring

What's Changing

  • Redesigned monitoring dashboards specifically optimized for Amazon DynamoDB and Redshift orchestration jobs.

  • The updated Jobs Monitoring page features clearer status indicators, better filtering options (by workload type, status, or timeframe), and detailed execution logs for both backup and restore operations, making it faster to diagnose failed or pending jobs.

Monitor Jobs

Customer action required: There is no action required from your end. We aim to make this migration seamless and ensure a smooth integration. For additional information or assistance, please reach out to Support.

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