As organizations accelerate their move to the cloud, data protection has become both more critical and more complex. Native services like AWS Backup and Azure Backup are built-in tools that offer essential backup and recovery capabilities for their respective platforms. They’re dependable, integrated, and serve a foundational role for many workloads.
But when enterprises require more—more visibility, more security, more scale, and more operational simplicity—they often outgrow what native tools were designed to deliver.
That’s where Druva comes in.
Built for the Cloud, Designed for Cyber Resilience
Druva isn’t a replacement for native tools; it’s a platform that builds on and extends their capabilities to meet the real-world demands of enterprise IT and security teams.
While AWS and Azure tools are tied to their respective ecosystems, Druva delivers centralized, cross-cloud protection, allowing organizations to manage backups, recovery, security, and compliance across both AWS and Azure through a single SaaS platform.
No agents. No infrastructure. No manual scripting. Just end-to-end protection as a service, designed to scale with your cloud strategy.
Beyond Backup: Cyber Resilience Baked In
Traditional backup tools focus on retention and restore. Druva goes further with cyber resilience features that help you detect threats early, respond quickly, and recover with confidence:
Immutable backups and air-gapped storage by default, so ransomware can't reach your recovery data.
Integrated threat detection that alerts you to anomalies in backup behavior, helping identify attacks before they spread.
Granular recovery orchestration that enables you to surgically restore clean data, without reintroducing malware or losing time.
Native tools may offer backup and restore, but Druva helps ensure you’re actually resilient in the face of ransomware, insider threats, and cloud misconfigurations.
Protecting Against Credential Compromise and Backup Co-location Risks
Modern cloud environments are increasingly vulnerable to identity-based attacks. In 2024 alone, over 80% of security breaches involved compromised credentials, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Attackers gaining access to a cloud account often find both production data and backups co-located within the same environment—using the same access policies or identity plane.
Native tools like AWS Backup and Azure Backup often store recovery data in the same control plane, making it susceptible to accidental deletion, malicious insider activity, or credential-based compromise. If a threat actor gains access to your cloud console, your backup data is at risk of being encrypted, deleted, or rendered unusable.
Druva isolates and air-gaps backups from the primary environment. Because it operates outside your cloud tenant and is fully managed by Druva, attackers can't tamper with backups even if cloud credentials are compromised. This breaks the blast radius of identity-based attacks — one of today’s most critical and growing threats.
The growing threat landscape: Industry data highlights
The threats to cloud workloads is accelerating:
According to IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost of a cloud breach reached $4.9M, up 10% year over year.
Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) reports that 75% of cloud incidents now stem from misconfigured or overly permissive identities, making cloud-native backup alone insufficient.
Gartner predicts that 99% of cloud security failures through 2025 will be the customer’s fault, often stemming from poor identity, access, or backup hygiene.
Ransomware attacks targeting cloud environments rose 68% in the past 12 months, per the Sophos 2024 Threat Report.
These trends underscore the need for cloud data protection platforms that go beyond backup, delivering built-in security, air-gap isolation, and rapid recovery capabilities.
A fully managed experience, not a point product
Druva isn’t a bolt-on tool or a one-off feature set—it’s a complete SaaS platform for data protection and resilience.
No infrastructure to manage
No tuning, patching, or capacity planning
No hidden storage, restore, or egress fees
From initial deployment to everyday operations, Druva removes the operational burden of managing data protection, while delivering built-in global redundancy, security, and compliance controls.
And if something goes wrong? You’re backed by 24/7 enterprise-grade support, SLAs, and the expertise of a team that lives and breathes cloud data resilience.
Future-proof protection across clouds
AWS Backup and Azure Backup are purpose-built for their respective platforms. Druva is built for your platform: whatever that looks like today and tomorrow.
Whether you’re protecting VMs, databases, or unstructured cloud-native data, Druva gives you centralized visibility and control, even as your environments become more distributed and dynamic.
And as your cyber risk posture evolves, Druva gives you the flexibility to enforce consistent governance, simplify audit reporting, and adapt to the latest compliance and security needs—without adding complexity or cost.
The bottom line
Native tools like AWS Backup and Azure Backup are powerful in the right context. But when data protection becomes mission-critical, and resilience needs to be proactive, not reactive, Druva is the better choice.
Not because native tools aren’t good, but because your cloud strategy deserves more.
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