AWS gives enterprises one more reason to trust NetApp ONTAP

We live in a world that expects speed. Whether we’re ordering groceries or streaming the latest episode in our favorite series, waiting feels like an inconvenience. We demand instant results for the little things, so why settle for delays when it comes to the big things that matter most?

When recovery takes too long, your organization’s most critical data—and its business continuity—are at risk. Shouldn’t we apply the same sense of urgency to protect information that drives business operations? Losing critical data is more than a minor inconvenience.

Ignoring resilience can lead to devastating consequences across industries, from healthcare to financial services. Imagine losing patient records in a regional disaster or losing payroll data in a cyberattack. These scenarios aren’t hypothetical—they are real, and they demand proactive planning.

We’re excited to share that NetApp recently earned AWS Resilience Software Competency Partner status, validating our ability to help AWS customers build and improve the availability and resilience of critical workloads in the cloud.

As organizations accelerate cloud adoption to scale and innovate, providing business continuity has never been more important. Unplanned downtime, whether caused by cyberthreats or catastrophic events, can disrupt operations, impact revenue, and affect employees. That’s where NetApp^® ONTAP^® data management software brings value by protecting critical workloads from ransomware on AWS.

NetApp’s status as an AWS Resilience Software Competency Partner means that you can safeguard your data and set your business up for continued success in your cloud transformation.

This recognition confirms that NetApp ONTAP for AWS has proven success and technical proficiency when it comes to cloud resilience. To receive this designation, AWS Partners must demonstrate technical proficiency through requirements that include resilience design, operations, and recovery. NetApp has proven this proficiency by delivering customer outcomes that AWS recognizes as relevant and successful. 

NetApp serves customers across more than 20 industries, maintaining a strong global presence. Leading organizations trust ONTAP to provide real-time insights, optimize cloud spending, and deliver uninterrupted business operations. 

NetApp has demonstrated leadership with AWS for over a decade, together delivering a unique, native AWS fully managed service based on ONTAP. This service brings enterprise-grade resilience to cloud environments by combining robust data protection, security, intelligent automation, and compliance capabilities with high availability for nondisruptive operations.

Here are key features of ONTAP that demonstrate resilience in the cloud. 

Business continuity. With ONTAP, your critical workloads remain accessible and resilient, providing peace of mind and operational stability. NetApp ONTAP supports high-availability pairs that provide automatic failover between controllers.  

Advanced data protection. Data protection is at the core of ONTAP. With features like NetApp Snapshot^™ copies, SnapRestore^®, and SnapMirror^®, ONTAP provides comprehensive solutions for backup, disaster recovery, and data replication. 

• Snapshot copies enable quick recovery from corruption with read-only, point-in-time copies of your data. These copies consume minimal storage space, recording changes to files only since the last copies were made.  
• SnapRestore facilitates rapid data restoration with Snapshot technology, minimizing downtime and enabling operations to continue without significant interruption.  
• SnapMirror creates a replica of your working data in secondary storage for use in the event of catastrophe. With SnapMirror, ONTAP delivers a robust disaster recovery solution that keeps your data safe and accessible. 

Unmatched security. Security is a critical component of cloud resilience, and NetApp ONTAP excels in this area.

• Achieve robust security by combining AWS and NetApp encryption for data at rest, and leveraging industry-standard protocols like IPsec, TLS, and Kerberos for data in transit.
• Autonomous Ransomware Protection with AI uses AI to detect constantly evolving forms of ransomware with 99% accuracy in NAS environments and automatically create tamper-proof Snapshot copies before damage occurs.  

Compliance and data governance. For organizations in regulated industries, compliance and data governance are crucial for resilience. SnapLock^® provides the ability to retain files in an unmodified form using write once, read many (WORM) technology, preventing modification or deletion either indefinitely or until a specified retention period expires. This capability helps to meet regulations, including SEC 17a-4(f), HIPAA, FINRA, CFTC, and GDPR.

Flexibility and scalability. NetApp ONTAP delivers multiprotocol support, including SMB, NFS, iSCSI, FC, NVMe/TCP, and S3, offering the flexibility to manage a wide range of workloads without the need for extensive refactoring. This versatility allows organizations to seamlessly migrate and manage diverse data environments to scale and adapt to changing business needs. 

Performance. NetApp FlexCache^® accelerates data access and reduces WAN latency and bandwidth costs by creating remote, read-only caches of actively accessed (hot) data from origin volumes, making it ideal for read-intensive workloads with repeated data access.  

Achieving AWS Resilience Software Competency is more than a milestone—it’s a promise to our customers. With NetApp ONTAP and AWS, enterprises gain the confidence to protect their data, maintain business continuity, and innovate without compromise.

Explore customer success stories from Phillips 66 and S&P Global to see how organizations like yours are building resilience and unlocking new possibilities in the cloud.