Rubrik , the Security and AI Operations Company, today announced Rubrik Apache Iceberg Protection, the company's enterprise data protection capability for Apache Iceberg on Amazon Web Services. The new solution expands Rubrik's cloud data security and AI governance portfolio on AWS providing ability to recover complete, queryable tables following cyber incident.
Native snapshots are metadata pointers, not backups, and when a table is deleted, corrupted by ransomware, or overwritten by an errant AI agent, those pointers vanish with the data. Native tools can restore underlying files but do not rewire catalog, leaving data teams to manually reconstruct table metadata before anything is queryable again.
Rubrik Apache Iceberg Protection backs up the data and the metadata that defines each table, and rewires the catalog on recovery, so tables come back complete and immediately queryable in engines like Amazon Athena, Apache Spark, or Trino. Rubrik Apache Iceberg Protection provides coverage for Iceberg Tables in AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon Simple Storage Service Tables, offering flexibility to store immutable backups directly within organization's own AWS account for full data sovereignty.
"Data lakes have grown beyond analytics and AI to now run entire business, and Apache Iceberg is one of the most critical systems built on them," said Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer, Rubrik. "While Rubrik has long-protected underlying object storage, we now protect lakehouse itself. That means recovering complete, queryable tables, not just raw files, with immutable backups stored directly in your own AWS account."
Rubrik Apache Iceberg Protection delivers Iceberg-Aware Recovery backing up table's data and full metadata then re-registering table in catalog on recovery instead of disorganized Parquet files requiring manual repair. Data Sovereignty as only Iceberg-aware protection offering allowing customers to store immutable Apache Iceberg backups within own AWS account for full data sovereignty, or within air-gapped, fully managed Rubrik Cloud Vault. Petabyte-Scale Efficiency with forever-incremental backups of only latest compacted snapshots keeping backup windows manageable at petabyte scale while customers choose Amazon S3 storage class fitting needs.
Change and Recover with Confidence: Customers can take on-demand backup before high-risk operation like schema change or large batch write, and restore to isolated Iceberg branch to validate data and schema before promoting table to production.
About Rubrik
Rubrik is the Security and AI Operations Company, delivering one platform built at the intersection of data, identity, and AI. The platform enables agentic cyber resilience and trusted AI operations for enterprises worldwide, built to recover before disruption strikes and stay a step ahead, so security is never the reason ambition stalls.
