Eon integrates with Amazon Redshift, allowing you to query database backup data in place.
Why use backup data for analytics?
Because backups already hold any critical data across the organization.
They include long-range context and consistent point-in-time versions that production systems rarely preserve. When that data becomes usable:
- You answer historical questions without rebuilding environments.
- You cut out redundant analytics copies and pipelines.
- You work from a single governed source of truth.
- You reuse the same datasets for investigations, validation, compliance, and BI.
What does it mean to query backups in Amazon Redshift?
It means backups are no longer expensive and useless. Instead, they form a rich data lake that already holds critical data, instantly ready for analytics or AI/ML workflows.
Eon stores database backups as deduplicated tables in Amazon S3. With the Redshift integration, those tables appear directly in Redshift as point-in-time datasets you can query immediately.
If you want to see how a table looked last week, validate a change, or compare before-and-after states, you query the backup itself rather than a rehydrated environment.
Key benefits of querying backups in Redshift
- Instant point-in-time analytics without waiting for restores
- No ETL pipelines or duplicate analytics clusters
- Trusted baselines for audits, investigations, and debugging
- Lower cost by eliminating redundant environments and copies
- Cross-cloud context via Eon’s unified catalog when needed
How the Redshift integration works
A simple, AWS-native flow:
- Eon continuously stores backups as deduplicated Hive-partitioned tables.
Eon introduces a modern backup format that consists of Hive-partitioned tables stored in Amazon S3. - You choose which backups to share with Redshift.
Eon grants read-only access while preserving immutability and governance controls. - Redshift queries in place.
Amazon Redshift discovers and queries the tables directly in S3.
The result: Redshift treats your backups as point-in-time datasets ready for immediate analysis.
What teams do with Redshift-queryable backups
Analytics and BI without rebuilds
Run Redshift queries on historical snapshots to validate changes, investigate incidents, or analyze trends without restoring anything first.
Faster audits and compliance checks
Search and query long-retained point-in-time data directly, instead of waiting on exports or restore jobs.
Operational insight and investigations
Backups provide a clean historical truth for debugging, root-cause analysis, and validating system behavior over time.
How Eon keeps backups usable and secure
Making backups queryable does not mean making them risky.
Baseline protections stay on by default:
- Immutable backups
- Logical air gaps
- Read-only analytics access
- RBAC and audit logs
- Autonomous Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM)
Analysts get governed access to historical truth. Security teams stay in control.
Want to see this live?
Get a demo, and we’ll walk you through Redshift-queryable backups end to end.
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