Cohesity has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to strengthen AI-powered data security and cyber resilience for organizations. The partnership aims to expand the use of AWS technologies within Cohesity’s platform, offering customers improved options for protecting, backing up, and recovering their data at scale.
Sanjay Poonen, CEO and president of Cohesity, stated: “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. 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.”
Matt Garman, CEO at AWS, said: “AWS customers want to do two things with their data: keep it protected and put it to work. 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.”
The expanded relationship allows organizations access to rapid cloud backups through Cohesity’s integration with key AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB. Customers benefit from features like deduplication and compression that lower storage costs while enabling quick recovery across various environments using a unified platform.
Cohesity also enables deployment of immutable cyber vaults on AWS in 36 regions worldwide. These vaults are designed for regulatory compliance by keeping backup data isolated from production systems through immutability controls and private network isolation—helping protect against ransomware attacks.
Another aspect of the collaboration is support for an AI-ready data lake for unstructured information. Using Cohesity Gaia—a generative AI assistant—organizations can extract insights from large volumes of backup data while maintaining security standards.
Dr. Narayanan (KK) Krishnakumar, Chief Technology Officer at Delta Air Lines commented: “We are delighted to see this strategic collaboration agreement between AWS and Cohesity because it will help mutual customers like Delta. 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.”
Kevin Lomax, Director of Technical Services at Pearl River Community College added: “Data protection and compliance are top priorities for us. Cohesity and AWS enable us to meet those requirements while accelerating our modernization journey. The ability to manage and recover data quickly across AWS regions gives our teams both peace of mind and agility.”
