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We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of N2W v5.0, the next generation of true multicloud protection. One streamlined platform now unifies policy-based backup across all three hyperscalers, adds robust data sovereignty capabilities, and takes the complexity out of retention and resource protection.
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Cloud environments are becoming increasingly multicloud.
Organizations want the flexibility to run workloads across different providers, avoid dependence on a single cloud, and maintain resilient recovery options as their environments scale.
With N2W v5.0 we’re taking a major step toward that future with the introduction of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) support, expanding N2W’s support and now covering ‘the big three’ public cloud providers.
But GCP support is just the beginning. This release also introduces support for Azure Government Cloud and AWS EU Sovereign Cloud, simplifies the process of upgrading N2W environments, makes it easier to protect previously unprotected resources, and adds greater flexibility to retention and recovery policies.
Let’s dive in!
Google Cloud support: one N2W experience across three hyperscalers
At the center of this release is new support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), expanding N2W’s multi-cloud capabilities and giving customers another option for protecting, recovering, and managing their cloud workloads.
With GCP now joining AWS and Azure, N2W provides a consistent backup and disaster recovery experience across the three major hyperscalers—all from a single console.
N2W can protect Google Cloud virtual machines and Persistent Disks, with policy-based backup management, multiple retention options within a single policy, and cross-region and cross-project data protection.
Organizations can also deploy N2W through the GCP Marketplace, making it easier to introduce backup and DR capabilities into existing Google Cloud environments.
GCP support includes:
- Virtual machine and Persistent Disk protection
- Policy-based backup management
- Multiple retention options
- Cross-region backup and DR capabilities
- Cross-project data copying for supported VM scenarios
- Google-managed and customer-managed encryption keys
- Deployment through the GCP Marketplace
- Support for all GCP regions
The addition of GCP means N2W can now help organizations build a more consistent multicloud resilience strategy without having to manage separate backup and DR platforms for each hyperscaler.
A foundation for GCP disaster recovery
The initial GCP release is the foundation for broader capabilities to come.
N2W will continue expanding native recovery capabilities in future releases to make these workflows increasingly seamless from within the N2W console.
Azure GovCloud support
N2W v5.0 expands its support for regulated environments with Azure Government Cloud coverage.
Organizations operating government and Department of Defense workloads can deploy N2W into Azure’s isolated government regions and use N2W for backup and disaster recovery within that environment.
N2W supports Azure Government regions including Texas, Virginia, Arizona, East DoD and Central DoD. This gives government organizations another way to incorporate backup and DR into their broader security and Zero Trust strategies while keeping workloads within the appropriate isolated cloud environment.
AWS EU Sovereign Cloud support
Data sovereignty and regulatory requirements continue to influence how organizations design their cloud environments.
With the addition of AWS EU Sovereign Cloud support, N2W further expands its ability to support customers with specific European data residency and sovereignty requirements.
The AWS EU Sovereign Cloud is designed around European operational, security, and data-residency requirements, with separate EU-based management, billing, security operations, and marketplace infrastructure.
N2W provides a dedicated listing for deployment in the EU Sovereign Cloud Marketplace.
For organizations with strict European sovereignty and residency requirements, N2W extends backup resilience into this dedicated cloud environment while retaining capabilities such as reporting and cross-account recovery
Improved Cross-Cloud recovery with root volume restore
Cross-cloud recovery is a critical part of a modern resilience strategy. It’s not enough to simply have a copy of your data somewhere else. Organizations need to be able to recover complete workloads when it matters.
Cross-cloud recovery gets a major enhancement in N2W v5.0.
Previously, cross-cloud recovery focused primarily on individual data volumes, limiting the ability to recreate a complete workload in the target cloud.
N2W v5.0 adds support for recovering the full VM, including the operating system disk, allowing organizations to recover an AWS workload into Azure without performing the same manual configuration steps required previously.
This enhancement provides a much more practical, rapid and error-proof recovery path for organizations operating across AWS and Azure and strengthens N2W’s multicloud disaster recovery capabilities.
From Unprotected to Protected — In One Click
An elastic cloud makes it easy to spin up ten instances. But when those instances get lost in the cracks, things get more complicated. Resources can be left unprotected, and administrators need a way to not only find those resources, but take action.
N2W v5.0 significantly enhances the Unprotected Resources experience by allowing administrators to explore the actual resources identified by N2W and add them directly to scheduled backup policies.
N2W scans your environment nightly and provides a clear view of which resources are protected, which are unprotected, and which have yet to be added to a scheduled backup policy.
Administrators can select multiple resources, choose an existing policy or create a new one, and add those resources to protection. They can also instantly generate unprotected resource reports, making it easier for auditors and compliance teams to identify and track gaps.
The result is a more actionable approach to backup governance. Instead of simply identifying protection gaps, administrators can address them directly.
More flexible retention in a single policy
For organizations with more sophisticated retention requirements, N2W continues to provide flexibility through multi-retention policies.
This release enhances those capabilities with the addition of daily backups, giving customers another level of granularity when designing their protection schedules.
For example, an organization could configure:
- Hourly backups retained for 24 hours
- Daily backups retained for 7 days
- Weekly backups retained for 6 months
- Monthly backups retained for 1 year
This eliminates the need to create multiple policies simply to implement different retention requirements.
The result is simpler backup administration, fewer backup chains, and lower storage costs.
Time-Based Retention for Time-Based Business Requirements
Not every organization needs retention policies tied to complex backup hierarchies.
Sometimes the business requirement is simply: keep backups for a specific amount of time.
Version 5.0 also makes time-based retention more flexible.
Organizations that prefer to manage retention entirely according to time can now disable generation-based retention and rely solely on time-based policies.
This provides a more intuitive way to align backup configuration with business requirements—for example, defining exactly how long daily, weekly, and monthly backups should be retained.
Easier IAM permission upgrades with CloudFormation
Upgrading N2W can require additional cloud permissions as new capabilities are introduced. For organizations managing many AWS accounts, updating those permissions manually can become a significant administrative task.
N2W v5.0 introduces a CloudFormation-based permission template workflow to simplify this process.
Administrators can generate the required permission templates from N2W rather than manually building or updating IAM policies account by account.
For larger environments, the release also lays the groundwork for more streamlined bulk deployment. Additional automation and StackSet-based approaches are being explored for future releases.
N2W v5.0 Additional Resources:
- v5.0 New Release Webinar on Sept. 16th: Register here
- User Guide: N2W Documentation
- Release Notes: N2W v5.0
- Not a customer yet? Trial v5.0 here.
- Not quite sure where to start? Schedule a call and demo.
Any other questions? Talk to us! Email info@n2ws.com