RTO & RPO in the Face of Ransomware: Building Recovery Plans on AWS for Today’s Cyber Threats

For most infrastructure teams, recovery planning starts with clear RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) targets — but ransomware introduces an entirely new level of pressure on those goals. These teams face the anxiety of prolonged downtime, the fear of reinfection, and limited visibility into whether their recovery points are truly clean — sometimes making the prospect of paying the ransom feel like the only way back online. This uncertainty forces teams to confront the limits of their current disaster recovery plans. In this educational webinar, experts from Aligned Technology Group and Elastio will explore how modern infrastructure teams are rethinking recovery strategies to embed ransomware preparedness directly into AWS DR workflows — transforming disaster recovery into true cyber resilience. We’ll discuss: Why functional backups aren’t necessarily clean backups — and why that matters for your RTO and RPO How organizations can proactively leverage AWS-based disaster recovery strategies (like AWS Backup and AWS DRS) to build scalable, secure, ransomware-aware recovery architectures Practical steps infrastructure teams can take today to strengthen recovery posture, reduce downtime risk, and build greater confidence and assurance into their recovery plans Who Should Attend: Infrastructure, cloud, and disaster recovery teams focused on minimizing downtime and strengthening recovery in the face of ransomware — including IT leaders, DR managers, cloud architects, and operations teams using (or considering) AWS Backup, AWS DRS, or similar solutions.