Cohesity & AWS boost data protection with advanced AI tools
Cohesity has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand the use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) services in an effort to scale and strengthen data protection, backup, and recovery for enterprises globally.
Cloud integration
Cohesity now provides native integration with several AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon DynamoDB. This integration enables businesses to safeguard hybrid workloads spanning on-premises and cloud environments using a single platform. Technologies such as deduplication and compression are aimed at reducing storage costs while maintaining fast data recovery.
Cyber vault deployment
Organisations are now able to use Cohesity to deploy cyber vaults across AWS's infrastructure, covering 36 regions. The cyber vaults are designed to ensure backup data is kept geographically isolated, resistant to unauthorised changes, and available for recovery at any time. These features are underpinned by AWS-native immutability controls and private network isolation, supporting compliance and resilience measures against ransomware threats.
AI and analytics access
The partnership includes tools to make backup data accessible for advanced analytics and AI initiatives. Cohesity's data platforms use AWS's suite of AI technologies to allow enterprises to extract insights from large volumes of unstructured data, including that from file shares and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Through this, organisations are positioned to use their backup repositories as operational datasets for business intelligence, while maintaining governance and security standards.
Customer priorities
"Deepening our collaboration with AWS and taking this powerful step forward in our shared vision to deliver cyber resilience to organisations everywhere is great news for the industry," said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity.
"AWS customers want to do two things with their data: keep it protected and put it to work," said Matt Garman, CEO, AWS.
Operational experience
Enterprise users from various sectors, including aviation and education, are actively managing large-scale backup and compliance requirements through this partnership. Dr Narayanan (KK) Krishnakumar, Chief Technology Officer at Delta Air Lines, said that AWS and Cohesity will continue to bring strong services to market that "strengthen data resilience and help position data and AI at the core of delivering reliable, innovative experiences for customers."
Kevin Lomax, Director of Technical Services at Pearl River Community College, said, "Data protection and compliance are top priorities for us. Cohesity and AWS enable us to meet those requirements while accelerating our modernisation journey. The ability to manage and recover data quickly across AWS regions gives our teams both peace of mind and agility."