Stein says an unmapped AWS customer lost data to ransomware
Gonen Stein · Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein · Aug 27, 2026 · at 15:47
Gonen Stein, co-founder and president of Eon, discusses why he and CEO Ofir Ehrlich left AWS to launch cloud backup and data management startup Eon.
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“During our time at AWS, it was a very large customer that was impacted by ransomware. We thought that they were completely protected using our technology, the Disaster recovery service that we managed there, and we learned, unfortunately, that the customer thought that they were protected. They weren't protected because they didn't map and classify and tag their resources properly, so it wasn't protected, and so 60% of the environment was exposed by ransomware, and that's one of the reasons why we decided to launch Eon and solve that pain point around human threats such as ransomware.”
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