The Top 6 Cloud Backup & DR Challenges to Beware of in 2020 and actionable, simple solutions to implement today

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Sebastian Straub, Principal
Solutions Architect at N2WS

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Cyberattacks are increasing
Source: safetydetectives.com
Over half of businesses in the UK &
US have reported being attacked by
ransomware in the last year.
This is just reported information.

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Just 12% of companies were highly prepared for COVID-19’s impact
42% of companies experienced a data loss event that resulted in
downtime in 2019
25% of companies are developing their first business continuity plan
in response to COVID-19
Only 16% of organizations can support a fully remote workforce
Businesses were caught unprepared
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Source: Gartner business continuity survey 2019,
https://info.opsramp.com/it-spending-new-normal

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Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery
While they share a common goal of
continued business operations, each
has a distinct focus.
“Everything fails
all the time.”
- Werner Vogels
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Modern Approach to Disaster Recovery
The concepts of DR, automation, and
high availability begin to unify.
“Automate, automate,
automate. But first…
test, test, test.”
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Operational backup & disaster recovery
(DR) built for AWS.
Flexible policies —scheduling from
minutes to months.
Distributed as an AMI through AWS
Marketplace.
Near-zero RTO, recover in seconds from
any type of outage across AWS regions
and accounts.
N2WS #1 Backup & Recovery for AWS
User-friendly “single pane of glass” with
dashboards, monitoring, alerting,
reporting, and third-party integrations.

8. AWS + N2WS = Better together
Amazon
EFS
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
Aurora
Amazon
RDS
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
EBS
Amazon
EC2
Amazon
Glacier
Amazon
S3

9. Top 6 cloud backup & DR challenges and
actionable, simple solutions

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Ensuring fast recovery to avoid the cost
of downtime
• Data damage
• Restoration of host systems and data
• No productivity/revenue
• Forensic investigation (if malicious)
• Damage to the reputation of company
Downtime creates loss of productivity of users and responders, exposure of sensitive
data, loss of revenue – current and future costs include:
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Using N2WS for near-instant recovery
N2WS specializes in full volume and instance recovery.
However as risk of human error increases, file or folder
level recovery is key. Restore across any region / account.
Configure regular backups of VPC settings and clone VPC
settings with just a few clicks and recover to any region
Restore anything
Clone your VPC
Near Zero RTO Eliminate costly and potentially detrimental downtime
with near instant restore.

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Complexity of scaling and diversifying data
In 2018, the world’s datasphere was 33 zettabytes.
By 2025, it is predicted to grow to 175 zettabytes.*
Data types are increasingly varied, requiring different:
*Source: The Digitization of the World (IDC)
Storage requirements Retention periods / compliance
Recovery options Frequency of backup
RTO/RPO SLAs Levels of criticality
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Automate, automate, automate with N2WS
AWS usage increases, DR needs to scale easily and
effortlessly. Being based on snapshots, N2WS does not
work any harder.
Meet any
retention period
Implement different RPO requirements depending
on desired frequency of backup in a few clicks.
Flexible RPO
Automate multi-tiered archiving for all
compliance requirements
Proven Scalability

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Continuous testing with DR Drills3

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Implement Recovery Scenarios with Scheduling
Automate a pre-defined recovery plan and
carry out ‘bulk’ DR drills recovering multiple
targets with ONE CLICK
DRY RUN: Configure your recover scenario
prior to restore and be notified of any potential
configuration failure
Build a fully tested disaster recovery strategy with new
scheduling capability. Meets compliance needs even further.

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Lack of understanding a multi-phase
approach to DR
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From protection to optimization: 3 key phases

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Avoiding errors and security issues with
multiple remote users
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Security in a multi-user environment
Multi Tenancy
Defined Roles
Built for a vast multi-user environment. Allows users or
departments in your organization, to manage their own
AWS resources
Secure access by defining resource access + authorize
credentials using SAML based IDP Providers (ADFS, Okta)
Easy Reporting Detailed user reports for transparency and audits

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Meet compliance requirements and
lower the cost of long-term storage
Archive snapshots
Save big on your AWS storage bill by
copying Amazon EBS snapshots to a
low-cost Amazon S3 repository
Stay compliant for less
Store data for as long as you need
while paying one third of the
standard cost, saving up to 60%
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Case Study: Gett (Lower storage costs up to 90%)
• On-demand transport company in 120+
countries.
• Greater control over its backup and
restore strategy helped Gett prepare for
its IPO in 2020.
• No longer storing old snapshots. Saved
~50% or $2,000—per instance per
month. IT savings >$100k/year.
• Uses Resource Control to automate the
stop/start of instances when not in use.
CASE STUDY
80+ Amazon instances
4 AWS accounts
ENVIRONMENT AT A GLANCE
$100k in cost savings

22. Demo Time!

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Used by AWS builders, worldwide
AWS Accounts
5K+
Petabytes of Backup
13+
HUNDREDS of
THOUSANDS of
Protected Instances