Back up your AWS workloads outside the reach of US jurisdiction.
Mindtime keeps immutable copies of your AWS data in European, ISO 27001-certified facilities — fully independent of AWS, Azure and Google. When something goes wrong in your AWS account, your recovery doesn't live inside the same blast radius.
AWS Backup is convenient. It isn't a second line of defence.
AWS Backup runs inside the same account, under the same credentials, governed by the same jurisdiction as the workloads it's trying to protect. That's fine for operational mistakes — and dangerous for almost everything else.
Single blast radius
A compromised IAM role, a rogue admin or a misconfigured policy can delete production data and its AWS Backup vaults in the same breath. Recovery and primary share a perimeter.
Subject to the CLOUD Act
Even when your S3 and EBS data sits in eu-west-1 or eu-central-1, AWS remains a US company. Under the CLOUD Act, US authorities can compel access — regardless of where the bits physically live.
Egress and restore costs surprise you
Warm, cold, cross-region, cross-account — AWS Backup pricing is honest but complex. Worst of all, the bill for a full restore arrives on the worst day of the year, not the best.
An independent, European backup plane for your AWS estate.
AWS Backup is an excellent first copy. Mindtime is the second — stored outside AWS, outside the US, under a different control plane and a different legal regime.
| Capability | AWS Backup (native) | Mindtime Sovereign Backup |
|---|---|---|
| Legal jurisdiction | US (CLOUD Act applies) | EU only — contract, operator and storage |
| Storage location | Your AWS account / region | EU-owned data centres, separate from your AWS tenant |
| Blast-radius isolation | Shared IAM & account boundary | Fully air-gapped credentials and control plane |
| Immutability | Vault Lock (configurable) | Immutable by default, WORM-enforced |
| Encryption keys | AWS KMS (AWS-controlled) | Customer-held or EU-HSM keys — you decide |
| Restore cost predictability | Per-GB, per-region, per-tier | Flat, pre-agreed restore envelopes |
| Compliance posture | SOC, ISO, PCI (AWS) | ISO 27001 / 27017 / 27018 + GDPR-native |
| Works with AWS Backup | — | Yes — we complement it, we don't replace it |
Every AWS service your auditors ask about.
We protect the services that carry real production data — not just the easy ones.
Compute & storage
Amazon EC2, EBS snapshots, EFS, FSx, S3 buckets (including Glacier tiers) and AWS Storage Gateway.
Databases
Amazon RDS (all engines), Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, DocumentDB and Timestream — with point-in-time recovery.
Adjacent workloads
SAP on AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS, containerised workloads on EKS, and on-prem systems feeding through Storage Gateway.
Three steps to a sovereign recovery plane.
We don't hand you a self-service tenant and wish you luck. Every deployment is scoped to your RPO, RTO and regulator.
Consultation & scoping
A 45-minute call covering your AWS topology, workloads, RTO/RPO targets and the regulators you answer to (DORA, NIS2, BaFin, AFM, etc.).
Architecture & deployment
We design the sovereign vault, set up immutable policies, and deploy within your AWS organisation using least-privilege cross-account roles.
Verified recoveries
Quarterly restore drills, signed reports for your auditors, and a named European engineer on your account — not a ticket queue.
Built for European regulators. Answerable to European law.
Every layer of the service — contract, operator, data centre, encryption key — is inside the EU and outside US jurisdiction.
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security management system, audited annually.
ISO/IEC 27017
Cloud-specific security controls for multi-tenant environments.
ISO/IEC 27018
Protection of personally identifiable information in public cloud.
GDPR & EU Data Act
Lawful basis, DPA, transfer-impact assessments — handled.
DORA-ready
Operational-resilience evidence for financial entities under DORA.
NIS2-ready
Incident response and supply-chain obligations for essential entities.
EU-only operations
EU legal entity, EU staff, EU sub-processors. No US parent.
Customer-held keys
BYOK or EU-HSM. Your data is cryptographically yours.
The questions your CISO will ask first.
Talk to a European backup architect.
A 45-minute consultation call. We'll map your AWS estate, your obligations and your realistic recovery posture — and tell you honestly whether sovereign backup is right for you.
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