AWS Backup launches Multi-party approval support for logically air-gapped vaults

AWS Backup announces support for Multi-party approval in AWS Organizations for logically air-gapped vaults to enhance data recovery. This new AWS Backup feature enables customers to authorize access to backups for approved accounts in logically air-gapped vaults, even when the owning account becomes inaccessible due to inadvertent or malicious events.

Multi-party approval is a new governance capability that requires multiple authorized individuals to approve critical operations before execution on AWS resources. This distributed decision-making process adds an enhanced security layer by preventing any single person from making unilateral changes. The capability is now being launched as an integration with AWS Backup, allowing customers to create and associate approval teams with both new and existing logically air-gapped vaults to strengthen recovery protection.

When used with logically air-gapped vaults, customers can provision clean recovery accounts and authorize backup sharing through their approval teams. Team members manage sharing requests through the AWS IAM Identity Center enabled Approval portal, providing an AWS-native secure method to access backups from compromised AWS accounts. Customers incur no additional cost for integrating and using Multi-party approval teams with AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults.

AWS Backup support for Multi-party approval is available in all Regions where logically air-gapped vaults are currently supported. For more information about implementing this data recovery strategy, visit the AWS Backup product page, AWS Backup documentation, Multi-party approval documentation and news blog.