AWS Hosts India Storage & Data Resiliency Day 2025: Building Resilient, Scalable Data Futures

AWS India Storage & Data Resiliency Day 2025 united IT leaders to explore cloud storage, backup, cyber resilience, and data modernisation powering India’s digital future. The event was hosted by CyberMedia's flagship publciation, Dataquest, in partnership with AWS, recently in Bengaluru, brought together technology leaders, innovators, and enterprise practitioners to address the future of data. From cloud storage modernisation to compliance under DPDPA, from ransomware recovery to AI-driven data platforms, the one-day conclave was a deep dive into how Indian organisations can secure, scale, and future-proof their digital core.

A Day Dedicated to the Future of Data

As India’s enterprises accelerate their digital journeys, the twin imperatives of data resilience and cyber security are reshaping IT strategies. Traditional storage and backup systems are proving inadequate against the scale of modern workloads, the demands of GenAI, and the sophistication of cyberattacks. It was against this backdrop that CyberMedia and AWS convened senior IT leaders, cloud architects, and industry visionaries for the India Storage & Data Resiliency Day 2025—a customer-focused platform to exchange ideas, share innovations, and reimagine what secure, scalable, cloud-first data architectures look like in practice.

The event opened with a welcome address by Biswajit Das, Head – Data & AI, AWS India, who reminded the audience that data is the lifeblood of enterprises. He underlined AWS’s commitment to helping Indian organisations modernise their storage infrastructure while embedding resilience at the heart of their operations.

From Bytes to Brilliance: AWS Storage as the Foundation

The first deep-dive session, From Bytes to Brilliance, set the stage with Marc Trimuschat, Worldwide Director – Storage and Data Protection, AWS, who described how Amazon S3 has evolved into the foundation of modern data strategies. From simple object storage to powering AI/ML, analytics, and external data marketplaces, S3 today drives performance, cost efficiency, and governance at scale.

Adding to this, Hiren Chandiramani, Principal Go-To-Market Specialist Storage, AWS, explored how AWS storage solutions help enterprises scale seamlessly, secure workloads, and drive innovation, embedding resilience across digital-first enterprises.

When Chaos Strikes: Resiliency in Action with Commvault

With ransomware becoming one of the most pressing business continuity issues, the session When Chaos Strikes, Be Ready struck a strong chord. Balaji Rao, Area VP – India & SAARC, Commvault, and Woon Ho Jung, CTO – Cloud Native, Commvault (Co-founder of Clumio) showcased how the combined strengths of Commvault and AWS deliver advanced resiliency. Their focus on air-gapping, clean rooms, and rollback capabilities demonstrated how organisations can withstand disruption while keeping mission-critical operations running.

Voice of the Customer: Data at Scale

Scalability took the spotlight in the Voice of Customer session with Sandeep A., Solutions Architect, AWS India, and Rajath Gowda, Founding Engineer – Data Engineering, e6data. Together, they demonstrated how enterprises can unlock the full potential of Amazon S3 with e6data’s high-performance lakehouse engine, enabling faster queries, smarter insights, and more resilient data platforms. For industries reliant on real-time analytics, this session offered a glimpse into how performance and resilience can go hand in hand.

Accelerating Cloud Journeys: AWS and NetApp

Modernisation is not just about moving workloads—it is about migrating them with confidence. The session Accelerate Your Cloud Journey featured Christian Smith, Worldwide Cloud Storage & Data Migration Leader, AWS, Puneet Gupta, MD & VP, NetApp, and Robbie Cameron, FSxN Specialists APAC, NetApp, who explained how Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP bridges enterprise-grade storage with cloud elasticity. Their discussion showed how enterprises can modernise without compromise, combining resiliency and performance at scale.

Navigating DPDPA: From Compliance to Trust

India’s new Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) framed one of the day’s most engaging panels. Lalit Kumar (AWS India), Maheswaran S. (Varonis), Kuldeep T. (Games24x7), and Hemanth Kumar Mangalore (Angel One) spoke about moving beyond tick-box compliance to building privacy-first innovation. Their message was clear: embedding privacy into digital transformation is not just about regulation—it is about customer trust, competitive advantage, and long-term resilience.

Business Continuity and Zero-Trust Security

Keeping mission-critical workloads always-on was the focus of Sachin Bawse, AWS India, who shared practical strategies for migration, disaster recovery, and IT resiliency. Building on this, Sabith Venkit, Sr. Worldwide Specialist SA Storage, AWS, introduced the audience to Zero-Trust backup frameworks using AWS RAM and Multiple-Principal Access (MPA). These tools, he explained, empower enterprises to ensure cross-account protection and compliance in the face of modern threats.

Banking on Data: Reinventing Financial Services

Financial services are among the most data-intensive industries, and Pritish Mhatre, Head – Data & Analytics, AWS India & South Asia, highlighted how data modernisation is driving efficiency, compliance, and customer-centric innovation in Indian banking. His keynote line, “Data is the genesis for innovation”, captured the essence of how banks must leverage modern platforms to compete and thrive in a digital-first economy.

Defense-in-Depth: Security Without Gaps

Security cannot be a single line of defense in the cloud. Tejas Sheth, Sr. Security Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS, presented a comprehensive framework for Defense-in-Depth, highlighting the importance of layered, adaptive, and proactive protection. He detailed how preventive controls, advanced detection, and automated remediation ensure that enterprises remain secure even as threats evolve.

Closing Keynote: Storage Innovation with AWS MAP

The day concluded with Tanmay Dubbey, India Storage Service Lead, AWS, who spotlighted the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). He explained how the three-step journey—Assess, Mobilise, and Migrate & Modernise—helps enterprises accelerate their move to the cloud with confidence. He also previewed OLA Assessments, showing how agentless storage evaluations and automated data collection can deliver major cost savings and make migration simpler than ever.

A Blueprint for the Future

Across the day’s sessions, a consistent theme emerged: resiliency is the new enterprise currency. Whether it was securing against ransomware, embedding privacy-first frameworks, or modernising with AI-ready storage, the conversations reinforced that resilience must be baked into every layer of the enterprise IT stack.

India Storage & Data Resiliency Day 2025 was more than a technology showcase. It was a collaborative platform where AWS and its partners—Commvault, NetApp, e6data, Varonis, and more—outlined a roadmap for Indian enterprises to secure, scale, and innovate in an always-on digital future.