The Elastio AWS Connector is a lightweight, cloud-native microservice designed to integrate seamlessly into customer AWS environments. It empowers security and infrastructure teams with actionable insights into ransomware exposure, facilitates early detection of zero-day ransomware threats, and ensures safe, efficient post-attack recovery.

Key Functions

1. Agentless Operation: The Elastio AWS Connector operates without requiring agents on workloads, leveraging AWS API read-only permissions to minimize deployment complexity and resource usage.
2. Comprehensive Ransomware Protection: It integrates directly with AWS Services and AWS Backup to detect ransomware threats before they compromise your backups and recovery points.
3. Real-Time Detection: The connector continuously monitors AWS storage and compute environments for zero-day ransomware threats, offering early detection and protection from perimeter breaches.
4. Backup Integrity Scanning: The connector scans backups in real-time, ensuring they remain uncompromised by ransomware and are safe for recovery.
5. Recovery Assurance: It identifies clean recovery points within AWS storage, minimizing downtime and data loss, and ensuring recovery readiness after an attack.
6. Secure Communication: A secure communication channel (SQS) is established between your AWS resources and the Elastio console, coordinating protection policies and transmitting scan results.
7. Resource Coordination: The connector manages the AWS resources needed to orchestrate regional data integrity scans and operate the region-level S3 vault for storing scan metadata.
8. Integration with Security Workflows: Findings integrate seamlessly into security operations workflows, allowing alerts to be routed to SIEMs, ticketing systems or managed through the Elastio console.
9. Scalability: Built for modern cloud architectures, the Elastio AWS Connector scales effortlessly across multiple accounts and regions, offering a centralized view of your entire AWS storage and backup landscape.

Elastio is an essential tool for organizations aiming to secure their AWS environments against ransomware, combining lightweight deployment with powerful, real-time detection and recovery capabilities.