Organizations face a critical challenge in data protection: how to retain ever-increasing volumes of backup data for extended periods while maintaining cost efficiency. Regulatory mandates, internal governance policies, and comprehensive disaster recovery strategies often necessitate preserving backups for months or even years. At the same time, the threat landscape continues to evolve, with sophisticated ransomware attacks making secure, tamper-resistant backups more critical than ever. This creates a trade-off between maintaining robust long-term data protection and managing costs effectively, often forcing organizations to choose between comprehensive protection capabilities and budget constraints.
To address this, AWS Backup has introduced a low-cost warm storage tier for Amazon S3 backup data that can reduce long-term storage costs by up to 30% while maintaining all protection capabilities and performance. This new tier is integrated into the unified data…
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/lower-your-amazon-s3-backup-cost-with-aws-backup-s3-tiering/
