AWS Storage Blog
Author: Randy Seamans
Randy is an industry storage veteran and a Principal Storage Specialist and advocate for AWS, specializing in High Performance Storage, Artificial Intelligence (HPC/AI), Enterprise Storage, and Disaster Recovery. For more Storage Insights and Fun, follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/storageperformance.
SAN boot your Amazon EC2 enterprise environments from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Traditionally, many enterprises and organizations with on-premises infrastructure have used boot-from-SAN (Storage Area Network) rather than using locally attached storage. Booting from SAN offers centralized management and backup of boot volumes, supports high availability through multipathing, and enables greater flexibility by allowing systems to boot from pre-configured OS images hosted on a shared storage array […]
Optimizing electronic health care records at scale with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) applications are approaching a 40 billion dollar market size with a high compound annual growth rate. While continuing to focus on enabling innovative healthcare, EHR consumers can benefit from adopting cloud-based approaches that reduce operational burden, management overhead, reduce capital outlay, and total cost of ownership. EHR deployments are complex in […]
Create a cross-platform distributed file system with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Due to need to control costs in the face of exponential data growth, doing more with existing on-premise resources while minimizing their growth has become ever more important. Most organizations would like to enjoy the benefits of the cloud while leveraging their existing on-premise file assets to create a highly resilient hybrid enterprise file share. […]
SAN: A million IOPs in AWS from Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP
There are use cases where applications demand the highest IOPS and throughput to achieve strict service level requirements. You may have seen how it’s possible to leverage the immense horizontal storage scalability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) into concentrated vertically scaled storage performance in my recent blog “SAN in the Cloud: Millions of IOPs […]
AWS SAN in the Cloud: Millions of IOPs and tens of GB/s to any Amazon EC2 instance
Over the years, traditional on-premises applications have relied on ever more powerful (and expensive) storage arrays to scale application IO performance and provide a single server with millions of IOPs. Meanwhile, AWS was perfecting the art of linear, elastic horizontal scalability of storage performance in the cloud. Until now, it’s been difficult to meet the […]