Tag: Storage

With the introduction of Amazon Aurora Serverless (currently in preview), SaaS providers are now equipped with a model to bring the scale and cost efficiency of serverless computing directly to storage partitioning models of SaaS solutions. We take a closer look at how Aurora Serverless works and how it influences your approach to storage partitioning in SaaS environments. The goal here is to highlight the implications of the serverless storage model, identifying key areas that will be of particular interest to SaaS developers.

We see many AWS Partners doing great things and innovating on the AWS Cloud. Veeam is bringing backup technology to the cloud; IOpipe helps you get better insight into your AWS Lambda functions; and Narrative Science uses machine learning to generate auto reports from your big data. These are just a few of the innovations being driven by members of the AWS Partner Network (APN), the global partner program for AWS that is focused on helping you build a successful AWS-based business.

VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to extend their on-premises data centers and easily migrate application workloads without having to convert machine image formats or undergo a re-platforming process. Customers no longer have to over-provision hardware resources to accommodate for host failures. Instead, they can increase utilization of the cluster resources, as host failure replacement takes minutes, not days or weeks. In this post, we dive deeper into the foundational blocks that make up this service.

The AWS Partner Webinar Series is a selection of live and recorded online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels and scale. Each webinar is hosted by an AWS Solutions Architect and an AWS Competency Partner who has successfully helped customers evaluate and implement the tools, techniques, and technologies of […]

By Michael Barrow, Technical Alliance Architect, Cloud Providers, Commvault. Commvault is an Advanced APN Technology Partner and AWS Storage Competency Partner. Cloud data management is an important part of your cloud journey, but it doesn’t have to be overly complicated. When your cloud strategy includes automated, repeatable processes for data migration, data management, and using […]

Recognizing APN Consulting Partners with proven expertise and success effectively storing data in the AWS Cloud for Storage customers. Death, taxes, and data growth: all sure things in this modern era. Organizations are asking for help managing the exploding volume, increasing cost and expanding complexity of data storage. Customers use AWS to address data storage […]

This is a guest post by Kelly Boeckman. Kelly is a Partner Manager at AWS who is focused on the Storage segment. Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” It’s worth noting, however, that Ben was living in the late 1700s, and was […]

This is a guest post from Pétur Eyþórsson, Resiliency Offerings Manager at Nyherji. Icelandair Group is one of Iceland’s largest corporations. The company includes Icelandair (a global airline), logistics, and several related business units. Like most businesses, Icelandair Group strives to optimize business results by choosing the most advantageous mix of capital and operating expenses. Small […]

By Ian Scofield, Partner Solutions Architects – AWS By Mike Ruiz, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS If you are familiar with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and the EBS volume snapshotting process, you may know that we recommend initializing – that is, reading every block – on volumes that have been created from snapshots […]

Amazon S3 makes it possible to store unlimited numbers of objects, each up to 5 TB in size. Managing resources at this scale requires quality tooling. When it comes time to upload many objects, a few large objects or a mix of both, you’ll want to find the right tool for the job. This post looks at one option that is sometimes overlooked: the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) for Amazon S3.