AWS Storage Blog
Author: Jeff Richards
Jeff Richards is a Solutions Architect at AWS with over 20 years of architecture and design experience, mainly in the telco space. He enjoys travelling and, prior to settling in California, has spent extended periods living and working in Europe, Japan, and Australia.
Customization and field maintenance with AWS Snowball Edge – sideloading AMIs
When the AWS Snowball Edge launched in 2016, if you wanted to run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on the device, you were required to specify an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to be installed on it at time of ordering. You were then able to launch Amazon EC2 instances on the device based […]
Implementing a backup solution with AWS Storage Gateway
Backups are the insurance policy for our data. We hope to never use them, but if the time comes when we need them, they had better be there for us. At a high level, there are two different variations: local and offsite. A local backup can be as simple as copying data to another physical […]