Commvault has announced the general availability of Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB. This is an advanced offering that ‘transforms how organizations recover data from one of the most widely used cloud-native NoSQL databases in the world’, says Commvault.
Amazon DynamoDB has become a foundational technology for cloud-first development teams, especially those building high-scale, latency-sensitive applications such as real-time personalisation engines, e-commerce platforms, mobile apps, and AI-driven services. Developers and cloud architects depend on DynamoDB for speed and scalability, but when it comes to data recovery – following a bug, accidental deletion, or related event – agility and precision can be challenging.
DynamoDB deployments contain complex tables, usually with multiple partitions within each table, that are constantly updated by applications and microservices. When there is an operational disruption, teams would generally prefer to recover just the impacted partitions, but with traditional methods that’s often not possible. Teams have to restore all of the data to an entirely new table, copy only the impacted items back, and then delete the new table to minimise storage and operations costs. For organizations managing complex tables with billions of records and terabytes of data, this can be a slow, resource-intensive process, which can lead to extended downtimes and high operational overhead.
Clumio Backtrack for DynamoDB allows teams to near instantly revert existing DynamoDB tables to a prior point in time with no reconfiguration necessary – an industry first, says Commvault. Organizations can also recover individual partitions versus entire tables, cutting both recovery times and recovery costs. This pioneering approach, combined with an ‘incremental forever’ backup model, not only helps deliver faster, more precise recovery, but also can lower total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to native options that only offer full backups.
Clumio Backtrack for DynamoDB is now available globally via the AWS Marketplace. Pricing is consumption-based.
