Intuit's journey to the cloud: Protecting native services

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Intuit reports being ~75% in the cloud and backing up 20+ PB while operating 3,400 AWS accounts and using a mix of homegrown and partner tools; the team automates protection via CloudFormation onboarding in ~2 minutes and applies global policies that schedule hourly EBS snapshots, keep seven‑year retention, and perform cross-account immutable restores with no egress charges. Demo shows file‑level restores from the first backup, claiming reduced blast radius and centralized compliance for thousands of accounts.

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1. 0:00Introduction and Intuit's cloud journey
2. 2:28Data protection at Intuit's scale
3. 7:19Cloud data loss risks and challenges
4. 10:30Protecting hybrid and multi-cloud environments
5. 12:36Demo of Clumio's data protection solution
6. 16:49Q&A on AWS account management

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