--- title: Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.6 adds new features, optimizations description: Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.6 introduces new features and optimizations to improve performance and monitoring while making regulatory compliance easier to meet. canonical_url: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-cyber-infrastructure-46-adds-new-features-optimizations/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) # Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.6 adds new features, optimizations Acronis’ ongoing commitment to cyber protection requires continued innovation and refinement of our solutions — both to meet the shifting cyberthreat landscape, and to set users up for success with usability and customization improvements. To that end, we’ve recently released version 4.6 of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. This update introduces new capabilities to further improve performance, usability, and security — as well as fixes for a few existing issues. [Learn More](https://www.acronis.com/en/products/cyber-protect/) [![Image 2: Eric Swotinsky](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/4ebd2c6ab90855a20d45286557169382.png)](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/eric-swotinsky/ "Eric Swotinsky") [Eric Swotinsky](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/eric-swotinsky/) 2 min read Last updated 30 June 2021 Acronis’ ongoing commitment to [cyber protection](https://www.acronis.com/en-us/articles/what-is-cyber-protection/) requires continued innovation and refinement of our solutions — both to meet the shifting cyberthreat landscape, and to set users up for success with usability and customization improvements. To that end, we’ve recently released version 4.6 of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. This update introduces new capabilities to further improve performance, usability, and security — as well as fixes for a few existing issues. ### About Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is an easy, efficient, and secure hyper-converged infrastructure solution for cyber protection. It provides secure, effective storage and protection for all data, applications, and systems, and is optimized to work seamlessly with the Acronis Cyber Cloud product suite. Service providers can take advantage of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure’s flexible licensing and scalability enable provisioning of cloud services for their customers while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). The solution offers support for public cloud integrations through Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS. And with over 26 Acronis data centers around the world to select from, Acronis Cyber Infrastructure helps organizations to ensure a local presence and compliance with any applicable local/regional storage and privacy regulations. ### What’s new in Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.6? Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.6 provides new features to enhance user experience and service providers' interoperability. Among the key enhancements included in this release are: * **Accelerated cluster update:** Save time with a faster maintenance mode when entering storage components and more efficient virtual machine migration. * **Backup storage throttling optimization:** Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and minimize the performance impact on the backup service with configurable throttling thresholds and decreased reservations for throttling. * **Object storage classes:** Optimize your object storage TCO and meet SLAs by using up to four different storage classes for applications with specific performance and redundancy requirements. * **Advanced core and object storage monitoring:** Monitor, detect, and fix issues faster with the help of additional metrics and alerts in the integrated Prometheus monitoring system for core and object storage. * **Enhanced TLS configuration options:** Establish more secure connections with the Acronis Cyber Protection Agent by restricting the ciphers that are acceptable and setting higher default cryptography levels. * **Embedded firewall management for outbound connections:** Ensure compliance with security regulations like PCI-DSS. Configuring outbound firewall rules for Acronis Cyber Infrastructure clusters guarantees that all established connections follow company security policies. [View the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.6 release notes](https://dl.acronis.com/u/vstorage/relnotes.html) for a full listing of additions and enhancements. ### Final thought Version 4.6 of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure enhances service providers' operability with new features and improvements. Backup and object storage, monitoring, security, compute services, localization, and the user interface are all addressed. Additionally, this release delivers stability improvements and fixes some issues present in previous releases. Acronis continues to refine its solutions to ensure the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) of organizations’ data, applications, and systems. Interested in trying Acronis Cyber Infrastructure? 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