AWS Public Sector Blog

Brett Eisen

Author: Brett Eisen

Brett is a solutions architect for the Department of Defense (DoD) at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Brett has over 15 years of IT experience supporting the DoD, Intelligence Community, and the Department of Homeland Security. His areas of interest are containers, serverless, and DevSecOps, and he enjoys helping customers solve their most complex challenges.

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Move data in and out of AWS GovCloud (US) with Amazon S3

Increasingly, AWS customers are operating workloads both in AWS GovCloud (US) and standard AWS Regions. Dependencies between workloads, changing data controls, or enrichment of data across multiple data levels are examples of business needs that may require moving data in and out of AWS GovCloud (US). In this blog post, I explain how to move data between Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets in the AWS GovCloud (US) and standard partitions.

Move file data in and out of AWS GovCloud (US) with AWS DataSync

As public sector customers find increasing need to move data between the AWS GovCloud (US) partition and the standard partition, they need tools to help them lower their operational burden. In this blog post, I walk through how to use AWS DataSync to move data on network file system (NFS) shares between the two partitions.