Enhancing backup vaults with support for Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, and multi-regions
To help protect against evolving digital threats like ransomware and malicious deletions, last year, we introduced backup vault in the Google Cloud Backup and DR service, with support for Compute Engine VM backups. This provided immutable and indelible backup capabilities for mission-critical VMs, for both VM metadata and all their attached disks. Today, we're announcing two enhancements to backup vaults that can help you protect more types of workloads, better: Backup vaults now support standalone Persistent Disk (PD) and Hyperdisk backups. Now in preview, it enables the direct backup of data on individual disks, providing a granular alternative to backing [...]