Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for AWS Backup.
Information as of November 3, 2026.
AWS Backup now supports cross-account management and backup in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling centralized management of backups across organization accounts
AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Redshift, allowing you to include Redshift in your restore testing plans alongside other AWS resources to automate and verify backup restores.
AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx file systems in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling centralized management of data protection for these resources.
AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volumes in logically air-gapped vaults, enabling secure cross-account backup sharing and direct restore to reduce recovery time from data loss.
AWS Backup now enables copying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups across AWS Regions and accounts, enhancing disaster recovery and security
AWS Backup now enables cross-Region copying of Amazon DocumentDB backups and supports logically air-gapped vaults in nine new Regions, helping meet disaster recovery and compliance needs.
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now enables read-only access to backup data via standard S3 APIs without initiating a restore, allowing targeted file recovery, data validation, compliance auditing, and forensic investigation.
AWS Backup now supports logically air-gapped vaults for Amazon Neptune in Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). This enables backup copying, sharing, and access protection across accounts and regions.
AWS Backup now offers restore testing in seven new regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). This enables automated restore tests and measurement of restore job completion times against recovery time objectives (RTO).
AWS Backup now offers logically air-gapped vaults in six new regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). This allows storage of immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted using AWS-owned or customer-managed keys.
AWS Backup speeds up S3 backup copy operations by up to 8x for buckets with millions of objects and low change rates, reducing cross-account and cross-Region copy times.
AWS Backup now offers fully-managed, policy-based data protection and recovery for Amazon EKS clusters in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, including automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies.
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