Case studyGovernment

Proving recovery for UK sovereign cloud workloads

How a major UK government services provider replaced legacy scanning tools with cloud-native Deep File Inspection during an 18-month sovereign cloud migration.

Customer profile
Industry
Government services and critical infrastructure
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Annual revenue
~£6-7B
Employees
~20,000+
Backup solution
Rubrik
Cloud platform
UK sovereign cloud (AWS-aligned)
The challenge

Legacy tools hit their limits in the cloud

The organization undertook one of the most ambitious programs in its history: migrating its entire data-centre estate into a UK sovereign cloud environment in 18 months. With national-level services at stake, unvalidated recovery was not acceptable.

Before the migration, the team used on-premises storage and specialist forensics tools to validate backups for ransomware and corruption. These tools worked in static data-centre environments. They did not work at cloud scale.

When the team attempted to lift their validation cluster into the cloud, three problems surfaced: performance bottlenecks made cloud-scale validation impractical, costs spiked beyond sustainability, and the legacy architecture could not operate in a sovereign cloud environment.

The solution

Cloud-native Deep File Inspection

Elastio partnered with the organization's cloud and infrastructure teams early in the program. The Hunt Engine performs Deep File Inspection natively on AWS, with no clusters to maintain and no legacy overhead.

Full Rubrik integration

Elastio works alongside Rubrik's native architecture without disruption, verifying backup integrity at the data layer.

Multi-vendor backup support

AWS Backup, Veeam, Cohesity, Commvault, and NetBackup are all supported, providing flexibility as environments evolve.

Sovereign deployment model

Elastio operates entirely within the customer's secure, sovereign cloud environment, meeting UK public-sector data-isolation and compliance requirements.

The outcome

Sovereign cloud, provably clean

The organization now verifies every backup for ransomware and corruption, automatically and at scale. Backups entering the recovery pipeline are provably clean. Sensitive workloads remain within sovereign boundaries. The cloud migration proceeded without introducing new cyber risk.

18-month migration
Full data-centre estate moved to sovereign cloud without introducing recovery risk
Legacy tools replaced
On-premises scanning clusters retired. Cloud-native Deep File Inspection operates at scale.
Sovereign compliance
All data remains within sovereign boundaries. UK public-sector isolation requirements met.
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