AWS Storage Blog
Author: Anthony Fiore
Anthony Fiore is a Sr. Storage Specialist Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services. Anthony works with customers to solve complex storage challenges, provide guidance on AWS storage best practices, and leading community service events with Amazon in New York City. Outside of work, he enjoys cheering on his son at soccer games, and perfecting his Bolognese sauce recipe.
Disabling Amazon S3 access control lists with S3 Inventory
Access control lists (ACLs) define user access and the operations users can take on specific resources. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) was launched in 2006 with ACLs as its first authorization mechanism. Since 2011, Amazon S3 has also supported AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for managing access to S3 buckets, and it recommends […]
Analyze and tier on-premises NAS data to AWS with Komprise
As companies store larger and larger amounts of unstructured data, they may find that their IT is not always capable of keeping up with their pace of data growth. For instance, they may be inefficiently and expensively storing unstructured data by storing both frequently and infrequently accessed data on the same NAS device, at the […]
How Clumio improved their Amazon EBS backups using EBS direct APIs
At AWS re:Invent 2019, AWS launched Amazon EBS direct APIs. This feature enables AWS customers to list the blocks in an EBS snapshot, compare the differences between two EBS snapshots, and directly read data from EBS snapshots. To perform these tasks before AWS released the EBS direct APIs, you would need to launch temporary Amazon […]
Protecting your data with AWS Backup
In January 2019, AWS launched AWS Backup, a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services. As of July 2019, AWS Backup integrates with: Amazon EBS Amazon EFS Amazon RDS (all engines except Amazon Aurora) Amazon DynamoDB AWS Storage Gateway (Volume Gateway) Overview Before […]