Cohesity, a top name in AI-driven data security, has teamed up with Amazon Web Services, Inc. This collaboration aims to enhance the use of AWS’s advanced technologies. It will help organizations protect, back up, and recover data efficiently at scale.
Cohesity and AWS are dedicated to secure data protection. Their partnership highlights strong resiliency and data-driven innovation.
“Deepening our collaboration with AWS, and taking this powerful step forward in our shared vision-to deliver cyber resilience to organizations everywhere-is great news for the industry,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and president, Cohesity. “By integrating Cohesity’s AI-powered data security capabilities with the secure-by-design, scalable global infrastructure and powerful AI capabilities of AWS, we will provide customers with even more effective options to confidently secure their data, keep it resilient, and leverage it to fuel business priorities.”
“AWS customers want to do two things with their data: keep it protected and put it to work,” said Matt Garman, CEO at AWS. “This collaboration with Cohesity helps them do both by using the global infrastructure and AI technologies of AWS to help customers safeguard their critical data and power their AI and analytics initiatives. Together we are transforming backup data from idle storage into a driver of innovation.”
Key Capabilities Enabled by the Collaboration
With the threat landscape now more complex and AI-driven than ever, today’s strengthened alliance between Cohesity and AWS offers organizations ways to stay ahead through: enhanced cyber resilience, smarter data insights, and greater agility. Key offerings include:
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Rapid, cost-efficient cloud backups
This solution, by leveraging Cohesity’s broad compatibility across more than 1,000 data sources, offers native integration with key AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB. With enterprise-grade deduplication and compression, it reduces storage cost while enabling quick recovery whether data resides on-premises or in the cloud.
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Immutable cyber vaults on AWS
Enterprises can deploy regulatory-grade cyber vaults in up to 36 AWS regions, keeping backup data in geographically isolated, tamper-resistant repositories ready for immediate recovery. With AWS-native immutability controls and private network isolation, organizations can meet the most stringent compliance standards and protect against ransomware threats.
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AI-ready data lakes for unstructured data
Cohesity turns backed-up data into a strategic business asset on AWS. With Cohesity Gaia, its generative AI assistant, enterprises can extract insights from petabytes of unstructured information in everything from file shares to SaaS applications-all while maintaining governance and security controls.
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Customer Impact & Validation
“We’re excited to see this strategic collaboration agreement between AWS and Cohesity, as it will help mutual customers like Delta,” said Dr. Narayanan (KK) Krishnakumar, Chief Technology Officer, Delta Air Lines. “We believe that together, AWS and Cohesity will continue to bring strong services to market that will strengthen data resilience and help position data and AI at the core of delivering reliable, innovative experiences for customers.”
“Data protection and compliance are our key considerations,” said Kevin Lomax, Director, Technical Services at Pearl River Community College. “Cohesity, together with AWS, helps us achieve those goals while also speeding up our modernization journey. Being able to manage data and recover it quickly across AWS regions gives our teams both peace of mind and agility.
Strategic Importance & Outlook
This collaboration reinforces the value of the Cohesity-AWS relationship in offering flexibility and unlocking significant business value across a range of industries. Cohesity‘s AI-driven data security, along with AWS’s global scale and AI tooling, means customers will have a more resilient and intelligent foundation for their data operations.
