Automated Ransomware Recovery Assurance for AWS Cloud Backups

Executive Summary

For businesses on AWS, taking backups alone isn't enough. Ransomware can encrypt data before it's detected, and those compromised files often end up silently stored in backups. Without validation, there's no guarantee your recovery points are safe.

Elastio + AWS: Built-In Confidence

Elastio integrates with AWS Backup, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Logically Air-Gapped Vaults, and AWS Restore Tests to automatically scan backups and replicated data for signs of ransomware, insider threat encryption, and data corruption. No added complexity. Just assurance that your recovery points will be safe to use when you need them the most.

The Problem: Ransomware Has Evolved – Your Recovery Strategy Must Too

Today's ransomware is no longer loud, obvious, or easy to spot. Adversaries use sophisticated tactics to compromise your data and backup sets silently:

• Fileless malware executes in memory, leaving no traditional footprint for antivirus or malware scanners to catch.
• Polymorphic ransomware constantly changes its signature to evade detection.
• Living-off-the-land (LOTL) techniques use native tools (like PowerShell or bash) to blend in with normal operations.
• Low-and-slow encryption keeps activity below detection thresholds – only small chunks of data are encrypted at a time to avoid triggering alerts.

These techniques allow ransomware to evade endpoint protection, bypass SIEM alerts, and infect backups – often weeks before discovery. When the time comes to restore, you may be reaching for data that's already compromised.

The Solution: Elastio + AWS = Assured Recovery

Elastio closes the ransomware recovery gap by validating the integrity of your AWS-based backups and replicas.

By combining Elastio's ML-powered data integrity scanning with AWS's proven data protection services, you get:

• Continuous, out-of-band scans for ransomware encryption and data corruption
• Proven-clean recovery points you can trust
• Compliance-aligned reporting for regulatory and insurance needs

AWS provides the foundation:

• AWS Backup for centralizing and automating data protection
• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) for low-RTO failover
• AWS LAG Vaults for secure, immutable storage
• AWS Restore Tests for simulated recovery

Elastio validates each one by ensuring the data is clean.

How it Works

1. 01
   Deploy easily
   Elastio launches via CloudFormation.
2. 02
   Scan Intelligently
   Elastio scans AWS backups, DRS replicas, and snapshots for ransomware, insider threat, encryption, and data corruption.
3. 03
   Certify Recovery Points
   Each clean recovery point is tagged and tracked with a “Last Known Clean” badge and a forensic report.
4. 04
   Recover Confidently
   When disaster strikes, your team knows exactly which backup is safe to restore from.

Why Elastio + AWS

• AWS Storage & Security Competency Partner listing; transactable via AWS Marketplace.
• Broad Service Coverage – EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, FSxN, ECS, EKS, AWS Backup, DRS, LAG Vaults, and more.
• Built for Zero-Trust – Out-of-band architecture means attackers inside the OS cannot tamper with scans or reports.