Ransomware hides
inside your AWS data.
Elastio finds it.

Modern ransomware evades perimeter defenses. Attackers establish persistence, move laterally, and corrupt data before encryption starts. By the time it is visible, your recovery options are already compromised. Elastio detects persistence mechanisms and early attack indicators across live data, replicated data, and backup data, and proves a clean recovery point exists before you need it.

14AWS services

live, replicated, and backup data

3data surfaces

live · replicated · backup

PersistenceDetection

finds attackers before detonation

What your existing AWS stack does not see

EDRProtects the endpoint
Amazon GuardDutyMonitors behavioral signals
AWS BackupCreates recovery points

EDR and GuardDuty are evaded by modern ransomware. The attacker establishes persistence inside your data, in production systems, backup snapshots, and replicas, long before encryption starts. Elastio is the control that operates at the data layer.

Three things a CISO needs.
All of them provable.

Deep File Inspection

Elastio opens and inspects the file. AWS Backup confirms a copy exists. GuardDuty monitors behavior. Neither looks inside. Elastio does, across all 14 AWS services.

See the GuardDuty integration

Provable Recovery

Every recovery point gets a verdict: clean or infected. Last known clean point identified per asset before you need it. You know before you restore, not after.

Custom Hunts

IOCs discovered during forensic investigation become platform rules. Write once in SQL, YARA, or Regex. Elastio runs it across every live workload, replica, and backup immediately. One rule. Full coverage.

Continuous Compliance Evidence

Timestamped proof that recovery points are clean, mapped to DORA, NYDFS, SEC, and HIPAA. Report on demand.

From behavioral signal
to forensic confirmation.

GuardDuty fires a malware finding. You have a signal, not a confirmation. Elastio closes that gap automatically: deep file inspection on the affected asset surfaces the blast radius, when encryption began, and the last clean recovery point. From "something happened" to "here is exactly what happened."

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01
Amazon GuardDuty

Malware finding triggered

GuardDuty detects suspicious behavior or a known malware signature on an AWS asset.

02
Amazon EventBridge

Finding event published

GuardDuty publishes the malware finding to EventBridge. Elastio is subscribed to the event stream.

03
Elastio Hunt Engine

Deep file inspection triggered

Elastio automatically inspects the affected asset, opening files, examining content structure, and analyzing encryption patterns.

04
ElastioCONFIRMED

Forensic verdict returned

Infected files identified. Blast radius quantified. Last known clean recovery point surfaced.

Every surface where ransomware hides.

These are the data surfaces Elastio hunts across. Every one of them is unverified until the Hunt Engine runs. Every one of them becomes a provable recovery point after it does.

Compute
EC2
ECS (Container Service)
EKS (Kubernetes Service)
Marketplace AMIs
Block Storage
EBS Volumes
EBS Snapshots
Object Storage
Amazon S3
File Storage
EFS (Elastic File System)
FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN)
FSx for Windows File Server
Disaster Recovery
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
Backup and Vault
AWS Backup
Logically Air-Gapped Vaults
AWS Backup Restore Tests
Coverage spans all three data surfaces: Live Data (EC2, EBS, EFS, FSxN, S3, ECS, EKS) · Replicated Data (DRS replicas, SnapMirror targets) · Backup Data (AWS Backup vaults, LAG Vaults, EBS Snapshots).

Agentless. In-account.
No data leaves your AWS environment.

Elastio deploys one Cloud Connector into a dedicated AWS account. That account becomes the centralized Hunt Engine for your entire estate. All other accounts feed into it via cross-account roles. One deployment covers every service, every region.

Your AWS AccountsAny number of accounts or regions

Production Account

EC2 · EBS · EFS · FSxN · S3

Dev / Staging Account

EC2 · EBS · ECS · EKS

Backup Account

AWS Backup Vaults · LAG Vaults

DR Account

AWS DRS Replicas · EBS Snapshots

+ Additional accounts
Elastio Account (Dedicated)

Elastio Cloud Connector

Centralized Hunt Engine

Deep File Inspection
Persistence Detection
Zero-Day Ransomware Models
Recovery Point Validation
Deployment

AWS Marketplace. Agentless.
No data leaves your environment.

Elastio ConsoleHunt results and recovery evidence

Hunt Findings

Per asset, per recovery point

R-RPO Per Asset

Resilience RPO across your estate

Last Known Clean

Identified per AWS service

Blast Radius

Scope of any confirmed threat

Compliance Evidence

DORA · NYDFS · SEC · HIPAA

Built with AWS. Validated in the field.

Co-authoredOct 2024

Ransomware Resilience with Elastio and AWS Backup Logically Air-Gapped Vault

Eswar Nalamaru, Elastio · Sabith Venkitachalapathy, AWS Data Protection Services

Joint technical deep-dive on LAG Vault architecture, CloudFormation deployment, and quarantine vault workflows.

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Co-authoredSep 2025

Cyber Resilience Built In: FSxN, AWS Backup, and Elastio

AWS, NetApp, and Elastio teams

Three-way joint content on Zero Trust resilience for FSxN — inline detection, AWS Backup orchestration, and deep integrity scanning across all three data surfaces.

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AWS for IndustriesAug 2025

Building a Sheltered Harbor-Compliant Data Vault on AWS

AWS + Elastio — Financial Services

Jointly validated architecture for financial institutions — S3 Object Lock, AWS KMS, air-gapped vault design, and Elastio forensic validation.

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Co-authoredAug 2025

Introducing a New Era of Clean Recovery — AWS DRS + Elastio

Elastio and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery teams

How AWS DRS and Elastio combine to validate recovery points at the moment of failover — ensuring replicas are clean before you need them.

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Prove your recovery readiness
against ransomware.

The AWS Ransomware Recovery Assurance Program runs a real-world ransomware simulation against your AWS backup estate, without touching production. You walk away with a written assessment of your Resilience RPO, your last clean recovery point per service, and exactly where your gaps are.

Most organizations discover their R-RPO is measured in days, not hours. This program surfaces that before your board, auditors, or regulators do.

AWS Ransomware Recovery Assurance Program
01

Simulate

Real ransomware behavior injected into your AWS backup environment, isolated from production.

02

Hunt

Elastio inspects your AWS backup estate and identifies what is compromised and what is clean.

03

Prove

Written recovery posture assessment with your last known clean recovery point identified per service.

PROVE YOUR RECOVERY

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clean point?

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