What Is Direct Backup to Public Cloud?
Exactly what it says: Acronis backs up your workloads directly to the public or private S3-compatible storage you choose — Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudian, Impossible Cloud, and others — with no gateway appliance and no forced storage bundle. Connect the storage endpoint, apply the protection plan, done. Storage strategy becomes your decision, not your backup vendor's.
Why It Matters
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No Lock-In, By Architecture
Acronis Cloud, your own S3 bucket, partner-hosted storage, or a mix per workload — the backup platform stays the same while the storage answers to your economics and policies.
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Immutability Where You Store
S3 Object Lock support means backups in your bucket can't be modified or deleted before retention expires — ransomware-proof storage on infrastructure you control.
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Compliance-Ready
Retention frameworks (HIPAA, FINRA, SEC-style requirements), encryption in transit and at rest, and optional FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography — with one console governing every storage destination.
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Cost Engineering
Pair with economical S3-compatible providers — including Wasabi, which palmiq deploys for exactly this — and the per-terabyte math of offsite backup changes dramatically.
How palmiq Runs It
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Choose
- Storage strategy per data class: hot restore needs, archive economics, residency requirements — palmiq runs the numbers across providers.
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Connect
- Bucket policies, Object Lock configuration, and credentials done right — the difference between "immutable" and "immutable-ish."
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Operate
- One console, every destination: monitoring, validation, and off-host processing (replication, validation, cleanup) without touching production.