61% of production cloud resources had no backups, Eon finds

Eon assessed 101,340 live resources across 78 companies' AWS, Google Cloud and Azure environments: 53,709 were production, and 61.2% had no backup policy, recovery point or detectable native snapshot. Only 14% of AWS production resources carried a production tag, and just 0.9% of gaps were documented as deliberate.

• 101,340 resources scanned, 53,709 production, data pulled September 15, 2026
• 61.2% of production resources had no backup policy, recovery point or snapshot
• Only 14% of AWS production resources had a production tag, 27% had no tags
• Median age of unprotected resource: 502 days vs 363 days for protected ones