Rubrik, a cybersecurity company focused on data security and management, has announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The SCA validates Rubrik’s commitment to delivering cybersecurity solutions that meet the highest standards of availability, recovery, and operational continuity. Rubrik aims to support how organizations achieve cyber resilience in their AWS environments, while unlocking the full potential of enterprise AI.
“Rubrik is excited to announce a strategic multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will help our joint customers build cyber resilience into their AWS environments,” said Mike Tornincasa, Chief Business Officer at Rubrik. “This strategic collaboration agreement will accelerate secure AI adoption through Rubrik’s expanding AI portfolio, unifying backup, threat analysis, and recovery for AWS workloads – all on a single platform. This ensures continuous GenAI product and engineering alignment, allowing us to rapidly meet customer needs as they pursue their AI strategy. Joint Rubrik/AWS customers will benefit from an elevated partnership that combines Rubrik’s proven technology with the scale and reliability of AWS. This expands on an existing relationship beyond a standard technology alliance and into a mutual, multi-year investment in co-development.”
Rubrik delivers a modern software solution to simplify and automate data protection and enable cloud mobility across data centers and AWS, including support for AWS Outposts. Backup to the cloud for cost-effective, long-term archival. They say that you can easily on-ramp to the public cloud with automated VM conversion and natively protect your cloud apps and workloads to recover with confidence.
This includes the Rubrik Preemptive Recovery Engine, which enhances data protection for customers using AWS’s trusted cloud. Rubrik offers the world’s only Preemptive Recovery Engine, which begins recovery before a cyberattack occurs. It proactively identifies clean recovery points, enabling the fastest recovery time objective (RTO) after an attack.
“By deepening our collaboration with AWS, Rubrik helps organizations keep data and systems running before, during, and after cyber threats,” said Mike Tornincasa, Chief Business Officer at Rubrik. “Combining Rubrik’s Preemptive Recovery Engine with the built-in security of AWS enables customers to adopt proactive cyber resilience, scale AI safely, automatically find sensitive data, and identify clean recovery points during attacks. With these capabilities, customers can restore operations in minutes, not weeks.”
“Rubrik’s Preemptive Recovery Engine is the world’s only solution that proactively identifies clean recovery points before a cyberattack occurs,” Tornincasa stated. “This enables a fast recovery time objective (RTO) and helps joint customers bring their businesses back online quickly – even if a threat actor successfully breaches their architecture. This will transform how organizations achieve cyber resilience in their AWS environments, helping customers move from reactive crisis management to proactive defense.”
Tornincasa also noted that Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience for joint customers, unifying backup, threat analysis, and recovery for AWS workloads – all on a single platform. Finally, he noted that Rubrik Cloud Vault provides a fully managed, logically isolated, immutable vault built on AWS to deliver, enabling clean recoveries and compliance without additional operational overhead.
But why should customers care about a partnership between technology providers? Tornincasa said that there a few benefits to consider:
Custom Security Integration: Moving forward, Rubrik solutions will be developed with direct input from AWS. This will ensure Rubrik and AWS offerings (like Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Bedrock) are not just compatible, but deeply and efficiently integrated.
Access to Cutting-Edge Technology: Customers are assured of continuous, Day One support for new AWS services and features. This will accelerate access to best-in-class data protection that is natively tuned for the cloud.
Operational Simplicity: The deeper relationship ensures that complex security and recovery tasks are integrated into the AWS ecosystem (often via the AWS Marketplace or AWS console), reducing the operational burden on customers.
Validated Best Practices: Joint solutions will meet AWS’s highest standards for security, availability, and operational continuity, giving joint customers confidence that they are deploying reliable defense against cyberthreats.
End-to-End Support: Integrated sales and solution architecture mean customers get streamlined support and expertise from both Rubrik and AWS, reducing finger-pointing and ensuring faster resolution of any issues.
Future-Proofing AI Initiatives: Customers will have a secure pathway to use their protected AWS data for generative AI. By explicitly including Amazon Bedrock, the partnership ensures that Rubrik’s solutions are being developed with the future of cloud-based AI in mind.
“At Accelya, data protection is mission critical,” said Richard Kettlewell, Director of Technology at Accelya. ” Rubrik was the clear choice for our strategic cyber resilience partner to protect our customers’ data. With Rubrik’s air-gapped backups and sensitive data discovery, we are confident that our critical data hosted on AWS is fully protected. We look forward to the innovations this collaboration between Rubrik and AWS will deliver to Accelya.”
The collaboration agreement aims to accelerate secure AI adoption through Rubrik’s expanding AI portfolio and Amazon Bedrock. Customers will be able to move from reactive crisis management when an attack or outage occurs, to proactive cyber resilience – all while safely scaling their AI initiatives from pilot to production.
“Our customers are racing to adopt AI, but data protection can’t be an afterthought,” said Chris Grusz, Managing Director, Technology Partnerships at AWS. “This collaboration brings Rubrik’s Preemptive Recovery Engine and cyber resilience expertise to AWS’s secure foundation, giving customers breakthrough capabilities—clean recovery points, sensitive data discovery, and AI-powered threat detection. Together, we’re enabling organizations to recover critical operations in minutes while confidently scaling their AI initiatives in our trusted cloud.”