AWS Storage Blog

Many organizations operate thousands of Amazon S3 buckets in a single AWS Region, each with its own configuration accumulated over the years. Some were created manually in the AWS Management Console and others by scripts that are no longer actively maintained, provisioned by different business units with their own policies, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tags. […]

Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based identity solutions to reduce infrastructure overhead and improve their security posture. For customers running file workloads on AWS, both Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server require joining a Microsoft Active Directory domain to serve SMB file shares and support Windows-based authentication. When customers have […]

Knowing who accessed your data, when, and how is the foundation for security investigations, compliance audits, cost attribution, and performance troubleshooting. Detailed access logs capture every request: who made it, which resource was accessed, and what response was returned. In practice, though, they arrive as semi-structured records spread across different locations. Turning them into actionable […]

Enterprises increasingly need direct access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for analytics, reporting, collaboration, and decision-making. Enabling this access for non-technical users can be challenging: training staff on the AWS Management Console, building custom portals, or adopting third-party tools each carry trade-offs in cost, complexity, or security posture. And as […]

As industries generate and store growing volumes of data, gaining meaningful insights into storage usage becomes increasingly complex. You need to understand your data growth patterns and drivers while optimizing storage investments across different business units and workloads. However, obtaining the necessary visibility by data categories, departments, or applications remains operationally difficult, limiting the ability […]

As more organizations adopt Diskless Kafka—a cloud-based messaging queue that builds entirely on object storage like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—they gain significant cost and operational advantages. But for latency-sensitive workloads, this architecture faces a key question: how to keep millisecond-level write latency while preserving the cost benefits of S3? This is the core […]

Learn how to use CIFS share-level access controls with qtrees on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to enforce per-team access boundaries within a shared volume, preventing unauthorized share access and simplifying access management through Active Directory group membership.

The most capable multi-agent AI systems share a common trait: they give agents the right context at the right time. When agents lack access to shared history, including what other agents discovered, what tasks are already complete, and what decisions were made in previous sessions, they might duplicate work, contradict each other, and burn through […]

Many organizations maintain a backup strategy built on the assumption that the backups themselves are clean. Ransomware can sit dormant in your environment for weeks, spreading across production systems while nightly backup jobs preserve it alongside your data. By the time the threat is identified, those backups are no longer recovery points; they are artifacts […]

Organizations managing thousands of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes across multiple AWS Regions have a significant cost optimization opportunity: migrating from gp2 to gp3 can deliver up to 20% savings, as highlighted by AWS Cost Optimization Hub. With AWS providing the ModifyVolume API for in-place, zero-downtime conversions, the path to savings is clear. […]