As the digital backbone of modern business operations, data stored in Amazon S3 is more valuable — and more vulnerable — than ever. From application data and analytics pipelines to system logs and backups, Amazon S3 is home to some of the most critical assets in your cloud environment. Yet when it comes to protection and recovery, most organizations are forced to choose between limited native tooling or complex, costly third-party solutions.
Today, Druva is proud to announce agentless, cloud-native support for Amazon S3 Backup, a powerful new capability that simplifies protection, eliminates operational overhead, and strengthens your cyber resilience across AWS.
Why Amazon S3 needs a better data protection strategy
Amazon S3 has revolutionized data storage with its scalability, availability, and performance. Yet, organizations frequently encounter significant data security threats, such as ransomware attacks, insider threats, and data loss incidents resulting from accidental deletions, policy misconfigurations, or exposed credentials. Additionally, compliance becomes increasingly complex when managing data dispersed across regions, buckets, and accounts.
Amazon S3 is an object storage powerhouse, built for high availability, scale, and access from anywhere. But with the rise of ransomware, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, relying solely on access controls or native snapshots isn’t enough.
- Ransomware and insider threats can encrypt or delete data with compromised credentials.
- Misconfigurations or user errors can lead to permanent loss of business-critical objects.
- Traditional agent-based backup tools introduce infrastructure complexity, high costs, and slow recovery.
Organizations need a better way to ensure security, compliance, and recoverability for Amazon S3, without adding risk or complexity.
Druva for Amazon S3: Built for the cloud, not bolted on
Druva’s new Amazon S3 backup capability delivers true cloud-native, agentless protection, enabling you to safeguard your object storage without running a single proxy or appliance in your AWS environment.
Key features:
- Agentless Simplicity: No software, proxies, or infrastructure required. Deployment takes minutes.
- Air-Gapped Resilience: Backups are stored directly in the Druva Cloud, isolated from your AWS organization, making them unreachable by ransomware or insider threats.
- Granular Backup & Restore: Protect and recover specific objects, metadata, or entire buckets with filters for time, type, or size.
- Smart Recovery: Restore specific objects to the same or a different AWS account or region, or even overwrite the original object in the bucket with full control.
- Built-In Cost Efficiency: No egress fees, cold storage for long-term retention, and global deduplication to reduce storage costs.
Solving today’s most pressing Amazon S3 backup challenges
Customer Challenge | Druva Solution |
Ransomware or insider threats | Air-gapped, immutable backups in Druva Cloud |
Lack of object-level control | Granular backup and object-level restore |
Complex, high-cost infrastructure | Agentless design with no proxies or egress fees |
Restore pain and delays | Object-level search, filters, and flexible restore options |
Accidental deletions and misconfigurations | Overwrite safeguards and version-aware recovery |
One platform. Unified cyber resilience everywhere.
The addition of Amazon S3 backup further strengthens Druva’s unified, cloud-native SaaS platform, built to protect data across your entire environment. From AWS workloads like EC2, RDS, and S3, to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, endpoints, on-premises systems, and Azure services, Druva centralizes backup, recovery, and cyber resilience in one seamless solution.
With a single interface, policy engine, and immutable storage layer, Druva eliminates complexity and silos, giving you comprehensive data protection and cyber resilience across clouds, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
Why now?
Cloud-native agility shouldn’t come at the cost of cyber resilience. Yet many organizations are:
- Struggling with budget constraints and resource limitations
- Under pressure to meet tighter RPO/RTOs
- Facing increased regulatory scrutiny
Meanwhile, cyber risks are escalating faster than ever. AWS-native tools lack true airgap isolation, and many traditional backup vendors require additional compute resources running in your environment. At this inflection point, businesses need a simple, secure, and scalable approach that works with how they operate in the cloud.
Why Druva?
Only Druva delivers a SaaS-native, zero-infrastructure solution purpose-built for AWS. While others retrofit on-prem paradigms or offer partial protection, Druva combines:
- Air-gapped backups with built-in immutability: Get robust protection against data corruption, deletion, or encryption from cyber threats. Take a closer look at Druva’s cyber resilience capabilities.
- Smart recovery workflows, including granular restores: Accelerate recovery processes with granular control, minimizing downtime and improving operational continuity. Explore how we offer the fastest RPO/RTOs in the industry.
- Global deduplication and no hidden costs: Reduce total cost of ownership through optimized storage practices and simplified backup management across multiple AWS workloads. Switch from legacy and save up to 40% TCO — learn more.
- Enhanced compliance and governance: Maintain compliance with regulatory standards, such as GDPR and HIPAA, through centralized, auditable, and policy-driven data management. See how you can remain compliant with the strictest guidelines.
This is more than just backup. It’s data security by design and cyber resilience by default.
Ready to strengthen your Amazon S3 cyber resilience?
With Druva, you can finally protect your Amazon S3 workloads with confidence knowing your data is isolated from threats, easy to recover, and cost-effective to retain. No agents. No proxies. No compromises.
See how Druva delivers agentless protection and cyber resilience for Amazon S3 data: