Cohesity wins AWS resilience competency for cloud recovery

Cohesity has achieved the Amazon Web Services resilience competency, a designation that recognises AWS partners with validated resilience offerings.

The competency is awarded to partners that help customers improve the availability, security and resilience of critical workloads running on AWS. The recognition reflects Cohesity's work in data protection and cyber recovery across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Its services are designed to support organisations dealing with ransomware attacks, infrastructure failures and other operational disruptions. Customers can protect and recover data across compute, storage and cloud-native data services through a unified operating model.

The AWS recognition also allows Cohesity to offer its resilience products through AWS Marketplace, with support for multi-currency transactions across regions. That procurement route may appeal to customers seeking to align software spending with existing AWS commitments while simplifying purchasing across markets.

Cloud resilience

The announcement comes as resilience becomes a bigger concern for companies running distributed architectures and cloud-based applications. Businesses are under pressure to maintain service continuity, improve their response to cyber incidents and reduce the complexity of recovery processes.

Cohesity said its approach brings together data protection, cyber security and recovery in one platform. It said a single system can help customers reduce tool sprawl and standardise protection, detection and recovery workflows across AWS environments.

The company also said this model can improve recovery time and recovery point objectives for mission-critical workloads. Those measures are often used by IT teams to assess how quickly systems can be restored and how much data may be lost after a disruption.

Recovery focus

Cohesity has placed particular emphasis on cyber recovery as organisations rethink backup and resilience strategies in response to ransomware attacks. By embedding recovery planning into system architecture, vendors are trying to shift resilience from a reactive measure to a core design principle.

In Australia and New Zealand, Cohesity linked the AWS recognition to demand from businesses building cloud strategies with resilience in mind. Organisations across the region are increasing their use of public cloud services while facing tighter scrutiny over operational continuity and cyber preparedness.

"The recognition from AWS in achieving Resilience Competency reinforces our commitment to helping businesses in Australia and New Zealand build resilience into their cloud strategies from day one," said James Eagleton, Managing Director, ANZ, Cohesity. "By combining Cohesity's AI-powered data security platform with AWS's global cloud capabilities, we're helping customers simplify how they protect and recover critical data, reduce operational complexity, and respond more quickly to disruptions."

Customer demand

The AWS competency also highlights Cohesity's ability to help organisations operationalise cyber resilience at scale. Customers can use AWS Marketplace to streamline vendor management and deployment while keeping security and recovery controls consistent across AWS services and regions.

One customer cited by Cohesity was the City of Seguin in Texas. The local authority said its use of Cohesity on AWS had strengthened its cyber resilience and simplified protection and recovery of critical workloads.

"Cohesity on AWS has strengthened our cyber resilience and simplified how we protect and recover critical workloads," said Shane McDaniel, CIO, City of Seguin, TX.

"When disruptions hit, whether operational or cyber-related, we know we can recover quickly and securely," added McDaniel.

Cohesity said it serves customers in more than 140 countries, including 70% of the Global 500.